After obtaining a Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, Prof. Van Keuren worked for the German chemical company, BASF AG, in Germany and Japan, and also spent several years at the Japanese National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research. He has over 75 publications in peer reviewed journals, and his work has been recognized by a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award, an Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and a Georgetown University Teaching and Learning with Technology fellowship. He is a member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society and SPIE. He joined Georgetown in 1999 and since 2007, he has served as the Chair of the Georgetown Physics Department.