Michael Goryll received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA. He held a research position with the Institute of Bio and Nanosystems, Research Center Juelich, Jülich, Germany, from 1996 to 2007, where he worked on Ge and SiGe nanostructure growth and the development of a strain relaxed buffer process for Strained Silicon on Insulator substrates using chemical vapor deposition. Besides his efforts in the materials science, he was involved in the process development for a vertical nanoMOSFET and a field-effect transistor for whole-cell-based sensing that featured an optimized geometry for cell attachment. He held a post-doctoral position with Arizona State University from 2003 to 2005, where he started his research on ion channels. He joined Arizona State University as a Faculty Member in 2007. His current research interests are in the field of silicon processing for nanopore devices, the integration of biogenic nanostructures with silicon microelectromechanical systems and the development of low-noise wide-bandwidth electronics for the recording of ionic currents in the pA range. He is a reviewer for international journals and the National Science Foundation, spanning the fields from semiconductor devices to biophysics. Dr. Goryll was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2012 and the Fulton Schools of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2012.