Emily A. Carter is a world-renowned scholar and educator (Princeton University’s Inaugural Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment) and visionary administrative leader (Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment Founding Director, Princeton’s Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, now Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Senior Strategic Advisor and Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Materials and Sustainability Sciences) with a research career spanning chemistry, materials science, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and applied/computational mathematics/physics. She pioneered development and application of quantum simulation techniques enabling design of materials and processes for sustainable energy and carbon mitigation. She has co-authored over 475 publications, patents, and codes; mentored nearly 100 postdoctoral fellows and Ph.D. students; and delivered over 600 invited, keynote, and plenary lectures worldwide. Her many honors include election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Inventors, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, European Academy of Sciences, and as Foreign Member of Great Britain’s Royal Society. She strategically lends her expertise to various entities, from the U.S. National Academies (e.g., chairing a three-year Congressionally mandated study on carbon utilization) to private science foundations (launching the Simons Foundation initiative on solar radiation management science and serving on the Kavli Foundation’s board of directors) to the federal government (member of multiple national lab advisory and review boards) to advising companies (e.g., chairing a scientific advisory board for a direct ocean capture startup company).