Andrew Belmonte did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago, where he studied physics. After working for a year at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, he began his studies at Princeton where he did his Ph.D. on turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection with Albert Libchaber. As a postdoc at the Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice in France, he turned his attention to reaction-diffusion systems, specifically the dynamics of chemical spiral waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. His other postdoctoral projects included turbulence in soap films (University of Pittsburgh) and the dynamics of falling paper (Weizmann Institute). In 1998 he came to Penn State University as an Assistant Professor, where he works in the W. G. Pritchard Laboratories of the Department of Mathematics. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 2000, and an NSF CAREER grant in 2001. His research focuses mainly on the dynamics of non-Newtonian fluids, but also includes complex behavior in mechanical and electrical systems. Recent projects include the motion of chains which tie themselves in knots, and cusped tails on rising bubbles. An underlying theme of his work is the connection between the microscopic dynamics of constituents and instabilities at the macroscopic level.