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Mark C. Hersam is the Chair of Materials Science and Engineering and the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, and serves as Director of the Materials Research Center. Hersam earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996, an M.Phil. in Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of Cambridge in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He joined Northwestern in 2000 as an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, advanced to Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in the same year, held the Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence from 2012 to 2015, was named Walter P. Murphy Professor in 2015, became Professor of Chemistry in 2007, Professor of Medicine in 2011, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2015, and Department Chair in 2023.