Buttry earned a B. A. with highest distinction in chemistry, magna cum laude, in 1979 at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He subsequently attended the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, receiving a Ph. D. degree in Electrochemistry in 1983. After graduating, he accepted a position as a Member of the Research Staff at IBM’s San Jose Research Lab (now the Almaden Research Lab). In 1985, he moved to the University of Wyoming as an assistant professor, where his research effort was initially focused on applications of the quartz crystal microbalance in electrochemistry and chemical sensor research and development. He became a professor in 1992 and served as head of the department from 1999-2002. His research interests have broadened to include new materials for battery and fuel cell applications, interfacial chemistry in corrosion, and electrochemical behavior of nanoscale materials and nanocomposites. His group has been supported by many agencies and companies, including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Department of Energy.

Redding received his Ph.D from the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University, where he studied intracellular protein transport and sorting in the secretory pathway of yeast cells. He decided to move into electron transfer processes, specifically in photosynthetic proteins, when he started his postdoctoral research in the group of Jean-David Rochaix at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. He continued working on several problems in photosynthesis upon returning to the US as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Alabama. He was promoted to associate professor in 2004. He has been working at the IBPC in Paris on a variety of topics, including an in vivo analysis of electron transfer reactions within heliobacterial cells.

Ros comes to ASU from Bielefeld University, Germany. She started her studies at the Technical University Munich, graduated from Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg with a diploma in chemistry in 1995 and completed her Ph.D. from the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2000. In the same year she moved to Bielefeld University and held a postdoctoral position in the Experimental Biophysics and Applied Nanoscience Group. Since 2001 she has been the principal investigator of several German National Science Foundation funded projects. In July 2007 she obtained her Habilitation License, which allows her to teach at German universities.