David Goldberg received his B.A. degree from Williams College and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 under the guidance of Professor Stephen J. Lippard. He then moved to Northwestern University where he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Brian M. Hoffman. He began his independent career in the Chemistry Department of Johns Hopkins University in 1998, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. His research interests are broadly based in bioinorganic chemistry, with a focus on harnessing the power of synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry for the preparation of small-molecule analogs of metalloproteins, bio-inspired catalysts, and other biologically relevant transition metal complexes with fundamentally new structure and reactivity. He is the recipient of a Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines/JPP Young Investigator Award 2006, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship 2002-2004 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2001.