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Edward Van Keuren is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Georgetown University and member of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology and the Center for Translational Imaging. After receiving a Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, he worked for BASF AG in both Germany and Japan and spent several years at the Japanese National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research in Tsukuba. He joined the faculty of Georgetown in 1999. His research is focused on the synthesis, characterization and application of multicomponent micro- and nano-materials. He has created a wide range of nanomaterials, including endohedral fullerenes for organic solar cells, charge transfer cocrystals for organic electronic devices, and nanoparticle contrast agents for MRI. He has also developed a number of characterization methods, including fiber optic diffusing wave spectroscopy, computational algorithms for wide-angle beam propagation, and three-dimensional thermal imaging. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles and has 6 issued patents. His current research involves understanding multicomponent phase separation during nanoparticle formation and using that knowledge to synthesize multifunctional composite nanoparticles for biomedical applications.