Dr. Robert Pike is Professor Chemistry at The College of William and Mary. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from George Washington University in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Brown University in 1991 and subsequently took a post-doctoral position at the same university. He specializes in inorganic materials, metal–organic chemistry, X-ray crystallography, sensors, photophysics and chemistry education. His research involves the preparation and structural characterization of transition metal–organic ligand networks, especially those that show novel coordination network arrangements. He is particularly interested in semiconductive copper(I), main group, and rare earth metal compounds.