Gregory V. Hartland is the Notre Dame Collegiate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He obtained a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1991 and performed postdoctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1991–1994 before joining the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are developing and applying novel spectroscopic techniques to study energy relaxation processes in nanostructures. Prof. Hartland is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was awarded the ACS Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry in 2021 and is currently the Deputy Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, a position he has held since 2020.