Emily A. Carter is Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences (AMSS), and a member of the executive management team at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). She is also the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE), and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. The newly formed AMSS directorate, which Carter leads, is applying the Lab’s expertise in plasma and computational science to advance innovations in microelectronics, quantum materials and devices, and sustainability sciences.  The author of over 475 publications and patents, Dr. Carter has delivered over 600 invited and plenary lectures worldwide and has served on advisory boards spanning a wide range of disciplines. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Inventors, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Sciences, and The Royal Society. Dr. Carter earned a B.S. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1982 (graduating Phi Beta Kappa) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1987, followed by a brief postdoc at the University of Colorado, Boulder.