Dr. Patrick Johnson recently joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Iowa State University after 17 years in the Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Wyoming. He currently serves as Associate Chair for Graduate Education and Research. Patrick has a research program that focuses on new materials and interfacial phenomena. Research topics include advanced carbon materials, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) biosensors, energy storage, and machine learning approaches. Patrick received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University in 1992 and his Master’s in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1994. He then worked on projects for environmental remediation in Belarus followed by work on sensors for detection of biological and chemical weapons. He then received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in 2005. In 2004 he was awarded an NIH Fellowship in Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Sciences at Rutgers University.