Andrew Christlieb is chairperson of the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, and is an MSU Foundation professor of mathematics. Since 2004, he has worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory on the development of new methods for particle simulations of plasmas, winning the Air Force Young Investigator Award in 2007 for his work. Christlieb advises many postdoctoral and doctoral students. Christlieb’s research group is currently funded by AFOSR Computational Mathematics, AFOSR Physics and Electronics, AFRL RDHE, NSF Division of Mathematics and ORNL LDRD on scalable computing. Dr. Christlieb is a 2017-18 Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow