Christopher M. Sorensen is the Cortelyou-Rust University Distinguished Professor and a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in the Departments of Physics and Chemistry at Kansas State University. He received a BS in physics in 1969, was drafted and served in Vietnam in military intelligence 1970 -71, and earned a PhD in physics from the University of Colorado in 1977. In 2008 he was named a Norlin Distinguished alumnus of CU. He is a condensed matter experimentalist and an expert in particulate light scattering. He has published over 300 journal paper and is involved in 10 patents. He is the lead inventor for a process to make high-quality, economical graphene. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). He is a past president of the AAAR and a recipient of its Sinclair Award and Outstanding Publication Award. In 2007 he was named the CASE/Carnegie Foundation United States Professor of the year for doctoral universities.