Tim Groves remains a lifelong scholar. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a research scientist, technologist, engineer, and mathematician. He worked at HP Labs and later at IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Center. He was Chief Technologist for one of Leica’s divisions, and most recently was a Professor of Nanoscale Science at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York. He retired as Vice President of Academic Affairs at the College in 2014 to move to Palo Alto. He currently has two new ventures, one to create simulation software for charged-particle beam systems which is affordable to individual users, and the other to develop a massively parallel array source for electron beam instruments. He received his BS in Physics from Stanford University and his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago.