Steven F. Son is the Alfred J. McAllister Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and is affiliated with Purdue’s Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories and Purdue Energetics Research Center (PERC). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1994. Prof. Son’s research is in the field of combustion with an emphasis on energetic materials. This include nanoscale energetic materials, microscale energetics (microenergetics), heterogeneous combustion, reactive materials, combustion synthesis, and explosives safety. Dr. Son has given hundreds of invited presentations at national and international scientific meetings and is an author of over 300 scientific publications. He is a Fellow of ASME and The Combustion Institute, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. Before his academic career, beginning in 2006, he was a Technical Staff Member, J. R. Oppenheimer Fellow, and Project Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the High Explosives Sciences Group.