Eric Stach  Eric Andrew Stach is an American materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an elected fellow of both the American Physical Society (for "development and application of in-situ and operando methods in materials research using transmission electron microscopy") and the Microscopy Society of America. He was also awarded the Eli F. Burton Award in 2009. He was named a "Highly Cited Researcher" in the newly established Cross-Field category in 2018. He earned his B.S. at Duke University in 1992, his M.S. and M.S.E at University of Washington in 1994, his Ph.D at University of Virginia in 1998, and a Masters of Business Administration from Stony Brook University in 2018. His interests are materials science and engineering, crystallography, energy storage, heterogeneous catalysis, nanotechnology and he is a specialist in the field of electron microscopy. His highest cited paper "Graphene-based composite materials" has been cited 9570 times, according to Google Scholar.