Michael Keidar is an A. James Clark Professor of Engineering at George Washington University and a Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University. His research concerns advanced spacecraft propulsion, plasma-based nanotechnology, and plasma medicine. In 2016, he was elected as AIAA National Capital Section Engineer of the Year, and in 2017, he received the AIAA Engineer of the Year award for his work on micropropulsion, which resulted in the successful launch of a nanosatellite with thrusters developed by his laboratory. Physics of Plasmas selected his 2001 paper on Hall thrusters as one of its most cited papers in the 50 years of its publishing. He is the Director of the Micro-Propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MpNL) and the Director of the George Washington Institute for Nanotechnology (GWIN). He serves as an AIP Advances Academic Editor, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, and a member of the editorial board of half a dozen journals. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics.