| Neal Shinn received the B.S. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. Thereafter, he was a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where his research involved the elucidation of surface reaction intermediates using vibrational and electronic spectroscopies in conjunction with thermal and stimulated desorption. In 1985, he joined Sandia National Laboratories as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, later becoming the Manager of the Surface and Interface Science Department. Dr. Shinn’s research aims to elucidate the structure and ensemble dynamic properties of self-assembled monolayers and ultra-thin fluid phases on solid surfaces. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department of Utah State University, where he conducts collaborative research on the electronic structure at materials interfaces. He has published over 80 scientific papers and has served on DOE and NIH review panels. He is an officer in National and international professional organizations. Dr. Shinn was recently named the interim Outreach Coordinator for the DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a collaborative nanoscience research center being developed jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories for the DOE Office of Science. The differentiating strength of this nanoscience Center is its focus on the integration of research discoveries into technology platforms that couple to the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. | 
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