Brent Fultz received his undergraduate degree from MIT, and his Ph.D. from U. C. Berkeley in 1982. He was a Presidential Young Investigator, and he received an IBM Faculty Development Award and a Jacob Wallenberg Scholarship. He won the 2010 TMS EMPMD Distinguished Scientist Award and the 2016 William Hume-Rothery Award of TMS. He was elected Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America in 2016, full member of the Society of Sigma Xi in 2017, Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2017, Fellow of TMS in 2018, "Outstanding Referee" of the American Physical Society in 2019, and received the 2022 service and leadership award of the Neutron Scattering Society of America. He serves on review boards of the Advanced Photon Source and the Spallation Neutron Source. He consulted for an electronics testing company, Everett Charles Technologies, for the Defense Science Board, was a member of the Science Advisory Board of Actium Materials, Contour Energy, and the Materials Project. Fultz has authored or co-authored over 400 publications, including two textbooks that are in their second and fourth editions with Cambridge and Springer publishers. He supervised 50 Ph.D. theses at Caltech.