David Smith is Regents’ Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics (1978) and D.Sc. (1988) from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He served as Director, Cambridge University High Resolution Electron Microscope (1980 to 1984) and Director, ASU Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy (1991 to 2006), and he was President of the Microscopy Society of America in 2009. His long-term research interests have centered on the development and applications of atomic-resolution electron microscopy, with recent interest in semiconductor heterostructures and ultrawide-bandgap materials.