Eric R. Bittner is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1994 and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University before joining the Houston faculty in 1997. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Fellow, and has held visiting or research appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Université de Montréal, École Normale Supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) Paris, the University of Cambridge, and Durham University. Professor Bittner’s research spans quantum dynamics, open quantum systems, nonlinear and ultrafast spectroscopy, quantum coherence, and nonequilibrium light–matter interactions. His recent work focuses on quantum synchronization, correlated noise in open quantum systems, and the emergence of geometric thermodynamic response and holonomic work in dissipative quantum dynamics, connecting concepts from spectroscopy, topology, and quantum information science. He has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and several books and edited volumes in theoretical chemical physics.