John P. Boyd joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1977 and has been Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science in the College of Engineering since 1988. Concurrently, he was the founding associate director of the Laboratory for Scientific Computation (now the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering). He has published 240 journal articles in atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, nonlinear waves, physics, and Chebyshev, Fourier and RBF spectral methods.