Daniel Lopez is the Liang Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State University, the Director of the Nanofabrication Lab at the Materials Research Institute, and the founder of the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH). After earning his Ph.D. in Physics from the Centro Atómico Bariloche in Argentina, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He subsequently became a Research Staff member at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he worked on superconducting materials, the physics of micrometer-scale mechanical devices, and developed micro and nanomachines for optical communications, quantum sensing, and maskless lithography. He later moved to Argonne National Laboratory to lead the Nanofabrication and Devices group within the Center for Nanoscale Materials. Following a sabbatical at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) focused on quantum packaging for atomic sensors, Dr. Lopez joined Penn State University as a named Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Nanofabrication Laboratory. In 2022, he established the Mid-Atlantic Semiconductor Hub (MASH), a consortium of universities, semiconductor companies, national labs, and workforce development organizations that consolidates resources and expertise to support the U.S. semiconductor industry. He also maintains an affiliation with the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division within the Physical Measurement Laboratory at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Dr. Lopez's scientific career spans quantum sensing, the physics of micro- and nano-mechanical devices (MEMS/NEMS), and heterogeneous integration, resulting in extensive publications and invited presentations, numerous patents and patent applications, and recognition including the Bell Labs President's Award, Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, and the Physical Sciences and Engineering Excellence Award from Argonne National Laboratory.