Sid Redner is a condensed-matter theorist whose research focuses on non-equilibrium statistical physics and its applications. Dr Redner has been on the physics faculty at Boston University since 1978 and has been a full professor since 1989. He has published 230 research articles and is the author of A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics with P. L. Krapivsky and E. Ben-Naim (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Dr Redner is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was a visiting scientist at Schlumberger Research in 1984 1985, the Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2004 2005 and a visiting professor at the Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and Universite Pierre et Marie… Curie (Paris) in 2008.