Liviu Movileanu has received his Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the University of Bucharest (1997). He has acquired postdoctoral positions at the University of Missouri (Kansas City, Missouri, 1997-1998) and the Texas A&M University Health Science Center (College Station, Texas, 1999-2004). He is now a Professor at Syracuse University, Departments of Physics, and of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Liviu Movileanu is also affiliated to the BioInspired Institute, Syracuse, New York. Currently, his research group is funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. His expertise areas include single-molecule and membrane biophysics, chemical and synthetic biology, as well as biosensors and functional biomaterials.