Dr. Robert Powers is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of the Systems Biology core facility within the Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication and is on the scientific advisory board for Olaris Therapeutics, Inc and Nexomics Biosciences, Inc. Dr. Powers received his BA from Rutgers University, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Purdue University, and was an IRTA postdoctoral fellow at NIH. Prior to UNL, Dr. Powers was the Associate Director for the Protein NMR group at the pharmaceutical company, Wyeth. Dr. Powers is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Current Metabolomics, is a board member of the Metabolomics Association of North America, a member of the Metabolomics Quality Assurance & Quality Control Consortium, is on the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports and 6 other journals, is an AAAS fellow, and recipient of the ACS Outreach Volunteer of the Year and an ACS Chemistry Ambassador. He has written over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 7 book chapters, is an inventor on 10 patents, and has given over 160 invited lectures.