Mark Koepke received his PhD in experimental plasma physics in 1984 from the University of Maryland and spent time at NASA-Goddard (engineering aide), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (physicist), and the University of Washington (research associate and research assistant professor) before launching the plasma physics program at West Virginia University (WVU) in 1987, where he has hosted graduate, postdoctoral, and sabbatical appointments from South Africa, Israel, Germany, Austria, and Japan. He served simultaneously as Acting Director of the Research Division ($300M/year budget), Team Lead for Discovery Science and Joint Programs, and Senior Scientific Coordinator for Basic Plasma Science in the Office of Fusion Energy Science, Office of Science, U.S. DoE (2009-2011). He is Robert C. Byrd Professor of Physics at WVU. Dr. Koepke held visiting appointments at 3 European universities (Kiel, Greifswald, and Innsbruck) and held Affiliated Professor status at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (USA), Institute of Physics (UK), and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan). From 2006-2009, he represented the U.S. plasma physics community on Commission 16: Plasma Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and is U.S. Deputy Editor of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. Mark’s service on committees within the American Physical Society’s Division of Plasma Physics has been extensive. Mark’s main research interests include basic plasma physics (wave-particle interactions, instabilities, turbulence-induced energy transport, dynamical complexity), auroral particle acceleration, complex (dusty) plasmas, industry-related plasma physics at the interface between a plasma and a material boundary, driven-oscillator spatiotemporal phenomena, and plasma diagnostic techniques.