Jeffrey Moore was born outside of Joliet, IL on September 15, 1962. He received his B.S. in chemistry (1984) and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with Samuel Stupp (1989), both from the University of Illinois. He then went to Caltech as an NSF postdoctoral fellow working with Robert Grubbs. In 1990, he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and then in 1993 returned to the University of Illinois where he is currently Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, as well as the Murchison-Mallory Chair in the Department of Chemistry. In 1995, he became a part-time Beckman Institute faculty member. His awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Chemical Society. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of American Chemical Society since July of 1999 and Advisor of the University of Illinois’ Society of Postdoctoral Scholars since January 2011. He has nearly 300 published journal articles covering topics from technology in the classroom to self-healing polymers, mechanoresponsive materials and shape-persistent macrocycles.