Robert William Schoenlein received S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog in 1984, 1987, and 1989 respectively. Schoenlein is currently the Deputy Director for Science at the SLAC Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), and is a P.I. in the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC. Prior to joining SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2015, he was a Senior Staff Scientist at LBNL with research programs in the Chemical Sciences and Materials Sciences Divisions. He also served as the Deputy Director for Science at the Advanced Light Source, and as scientific lead for the Next Generation Light Source Initiative at LBNL. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal from OSA.