Michael Dudley received both his bachelor’s and Doctoral degrees from Warwick University, UK, graduating with a Bsc in Physics and Materials Science (graduating top of his class) and a PhD in Engineering, working with Prof. Keith Bowen. During his doctoral work he spent 1.5 years at the laboratory of Prof. André Authier in the Laboratoire Minéralogie-Cristallographie at the University of Paris (6) where he was advised by Prof. Jacques Miltat. Most of his experimental work was done at the synchrotron source, LURE, at Orsay.  He carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Strathclyde (working with Professor John Sherwood) with much of the experimental work being done at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury Laboratory. He is currently a Professor in the Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. He was also Department Chair for 24 years. In 2018 he was the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service. He is director of the Stony Brook Synchrotron Topography Laboratory at Stony Brook, and ran a synchrotron topography beamline at the NSLS, BNL for 25 years. Most of his experimental work is currently carried out at the Advanced Photon Source, at Argonne National Laboratory. His group has also carried out experiments at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France, Diamond Synchrotron Source in the UK, and ANKA source in Germany. His current research focuses on crystal growth and characterization of defect structures in wide-bandgap semiconductor and related single crystals with a view to determining their origins and influence on device performance. In this capacity he has worked with many industrial entities around the world including: Cree Inc. (now Wolfspeed), II-VI Inc. (now Coherent), Pallidus Inc., Litton Airtron, Sterling, ATMI, Siemens, Fairfield Crystals, Hexatech, Arc Energy, Crystal IS, Dow Corning (Dupont and now SK Siltron), CRIEPI in Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical, Tankebleu (Beijing Tiankehe Dalanguang Semiconductor Limited Company), and SICC Co Ltd. (Shandong Tianyue Advanced Technology Co. Ltd.). He also been funded in similar capacities by the National Science Foundation, the US Dept. of Energy, Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), US Army Research Lab, US Army Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA Microgravity Program, NASA Lewis (now NASA Glenn), and NASA Marshall Space Flight Center He has co-authored some 464 refereed articles and 15 book chapters and edited 21 books. He has also chaired or co-chaired several international conferences and serves on the organizational committees for conferences such as the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM), the European Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ECSCRM), a long ongoing series of Electrochemical Society Symposia on GaN Devices, the Electronic Materials Conference, and the Conference on Defects-Recognition, Imaging and Physics in Semiconductors (DRIP).