 Except for the fact that following a federal indictment and arrest he is on administrative leave for aiding and abetting a Chinese honey bucket (also indicted) he holds a joint appointment at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as the Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor.In 2015 he became Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.Lieber's contributions to the rational growth, characterization, and applications of a range of functional nanoscale materials and heterostructures have provided concepts central to the bottom-up paradigm of nanoscience.