Gregory Scholes is the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he later undertook postdoctoral training at Imperial College London and University of California Berkeley. He started his independent career at the University of Toronto (2000-2014) where he was the D.J. LeRoy Distinguished Professor. Dr. Scholes is the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Senior Fellow in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program Biology, Energy, Technology, and a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Dr. Scholes has had a long-standing interest in mechanisms of electronic energy transfer and the photo-physics of molecular excitons. Current research concerns working out design principles for directing and regulating light-initiated energy flow in man-made and natural systems, like proteins involved in photosynthesis.