Ilya Zharov is a Professor at the Chemistry Department, the University of Utah. He obtained his BS in 1990 from Chelyabinsk State University, his MS in 1994 from the Technion, and his PhD in 2000 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2000-2003 he was a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on novel nanoporous materials, ion conductive membranes, and theranostic agents. Among his awards are Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He was named an Emerging Investigator by Chemical Communications in 2011 and serves on the Editorial Board of Current Materials Science and as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Chemistry.