Dr. Takeshi Egami is UT-ORNL Distinguished Scientist and Professor as well as the Director of the Joint-Institute for Neutron Sciences at the University of Tennessee since 2003. Before moving to Tennessee, he was Assistant Professor (1973-76), Associate Professor (1976-80) and Professor (1980-2003) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and received J. D. Hanawalt Award, International Union of Crystallography, 2010, Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award, Amer. Crystallographic Assoc., 2003, Metal Physics Achievement Award, Japan Institute of Metals, 1988, and Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal of TMS AIME, 1974. He is a co-author of a widely read book on the atomic pair-density function (PDF) method, Underneath the Bragg Peak: Structural Analysis of Complex Materials, with S. J. L. Billinge (2003, 2012), and directed the upgrading project of a neutron powder PDF diffractometer, NPDF, of the Lujan Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2000-2003). His works have been cited over 12,000 times. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1971) and his Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo (1968).