Edward Yeung received his A.B. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Since then, he has been on the chemistry faculty at Iowa State University, where he is Robert Allen Wright Professor and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on measurement systems for biological and material sciences. His expertise includes optical and mass spectroscopies, single cell and single molecule monitoring, and fundamental phenomena in chromatography. He has received the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, 4 separate R&D 100 Awards, the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award, the L. S. Palmer Award, the ACS Fisher Award in Analytical Chemistry, the Frederick Conference on Capillary Electrophoresis Award, the ACS Award in Chromatography, the Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Separation Science, the Ralph N. Adams Award in Bioanalytical Chemistry, the Golay Award and the Martin Medal.