Max L. Berkowitz, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research interests include studies of the structural and dynamical properties of aqueous ionic solutions, structure and dynamics of biomembranes, and influence of cavitation effect on biomembranes. He has given numerous invited talks and presentations and is an author or a co-author of more than150 peer-reviewed journal publications. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.