Robert L. Leheny is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.  He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1997.  After a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2000.  His primary research interests are in experimental soft condensed matter physics with particular focus on disordered and out-of-equilibrium systems such as glass-forming liquids, liquid crystal-colloid composites, and gels.  A major part of his research program involves the development and application of advanced x-rays scattering methods.