Scott Auerbach is professor of chemistry at UMass Amherst. Auerbach's research focuses on simulating nanostructured materials important to technologies promoting sustainability including biofuels and fuel cells – leading to 2 books and 130 articles. Auerbach earned a BS in Chemistry from Georgetown in 1988 and a PhD in theoretical chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1993. After an NSF postdoc at UC Santa Barbara, Auerbach began his career in 1995 at UMass Chemistry and was promoted to full professor in 2004. Auerbach won an NSF Career Award in 1998, a Sloan Fellowship in 1999, and a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 1999. Auerbach is the founder and the Mahoney Family Sponsored executive director of the Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) Program, which challenges STEM and Business students to design solutions for societal problems in clean energy and biomedicine. In 2016, Auerbach won the inaugural Manning Prize for Teaching Excellence; and in 2017 Auerbach won the UMass Distinguished Teaching Award. Auerbach enjoys music, fitness, and all forms of skiing.