Boon K. Teo received his B.Sc. (Hons, First Class) degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1969 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1973. He then worked at AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) for a dozen years before joining the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 as a tenured professor. He is author or coauthor of hundreds of publications (including 20 reviews and book chapters), three books, and two patents. Professor Teo has a very broad research interest, including the synthesis, structure, bonding, and properties of supersized metal clusters, supramolecular chemistry, molecular and crystal engineering, molecular orbital and density function calculations, X-ray crystallography, synchrotron radiation research (EXAFS, XANES), nonlinear optical materials (optical limiters), and, more recently, nanomaterials (silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes), and nanotechnology. One of his publications, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1979, 101, 2815, was selected as one of the "all-time 125 most-cited JACS publications" in the 125th volume of the journal in 2003. He is also the cofounder and current coeditor of J.Cluster Sci. Professor Teo dedicates his free time to helping countless underprivileged students by building/donating primary schools in impoverished regions of the world, especially the Midwest of China.