Professor Gerald Pollack has a degree in electrical engineering and obtained his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He’s currently the professor of bioengineering at University of Washington and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Water, a multidisciplinary research journal. He’s also the convener of the annual conference on the physics, chemistry, and biology of water and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science. Professor Pollack is a founding member of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and a fellow of both the American Heart Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. He has over 300 scientific studies published in peer-reviewed science journals and is an author of 8 books. His interests have ranged broadly from biological motion and cell biology to the interaction of biological surfaces with aqueous solutions. His newest book, The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, won the distinguished award from the Society for Technical Communication and went on to receive the World Summit Excellence Award. Professor Pollack has received numerous awards and distinctions, too many to mention here. But some include recently being named an honorary professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He’s receive distinguished letter awards from both the Biomedical Engineering Society and the University of Washington. And in 2014, he received the Scientific Excellence Award from the World Academy of Neural Therapy as well as The Society for Exploration’s Dinsdale Prize.