Paul Kohl received a Ph.D. from The University of Texas, in 1978. After graduation, Dr. Kohl was employed at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ from 1978 to 1989. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, where he is currently a Regents' Professor and holder of the Thomas L. Gossage Chair. Dr. Kohl's research interests include electrochemical devices for energy storage and conversion, and new ion conducting polymers electrolytes. He has 340 journal publications, 67 US patents, and more than 400 conference presentations. Dr. Kohl is the past Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society and Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, and past President of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He has received the Carl Wagner (mid-career) Award from ECS, Gordon Moore Award in solid-state science, Callinan Award from ECS in Dielectric Science, and ACS Award in Polymer Science. He is a Fellow of AIChE and ECS.