Dr. Charles C. L. McCrory is a Professor of Chemistry in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and a Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned dual B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was a Wells Scholar conducting research with Professor George E. Ewing studying the structure and composition of thin films of water on single-crystal salt surfaces. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University for his research with Professor Christopher E. D. Chidsey studying the kinetics and mechanisms of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction and alcohol oxidation by discrete molecular complexes immobilized onto carbon surfaces. He continued working in molecular electrocatalysis during his postdoctoral research with Professor Jonas C. Peters at the California Institute of Technology studying the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction by Co- and Ni-complexes.