He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) and habilitation from Ruhr-University Bochum and the University of Aachen, Germany, respectively. His research expertise is in the fundamentals of molecular simulation, a field at the interface of theoretical physics and engineering. Dr. Lustig recently completed an ambitious project to develop a novel statistical mechanical methodology for the concurrent molecular simulation of any number of thermodynamic properties. Through this work, he initiated collaborations with experts in Germany to implement his models on supercomputers.