Robert L. Gunshor received his B.E.E. in 1958 at New York University; his M.S.E. in 1962 at Union College in Schenectady, New York; and his Ph.D. in 1965 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He is currently the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Since 1983 he has been involved in the growth and optical, electrical, and microstructural characterization of a wide range of II-VI and II-VI/III-V semiconductor heterostructures. He is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society nd a member of the Materials Research Society.