Abhaya K. Datye is Distinguished Regents Professor of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Director of the graduate interdisciplinary program in Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering and also the Director of the Center for Microengineered Materials, a strategic research center at UNM. His research interests are in heterogeneous catalysis, materials characterization and nanomaterials synthesis. His research group has pioneered the development of electron microscopy tools for the study of catalysts.