Professor Troy Shinbrot has been nominated as an American Physical Society fellow, “For his creative and thought-provoking work on chaos, fluid mixing, and granular flows.” Professor Shinbrot is also an American Institute of Biomedical Engineers fellow, is founding editor of Physical Review Applied, and has been invited to serve as Guest Professor at numerous international institutions in Switzerland, Japan, Germany and Brazil. His current research is wide ranging, including work in cognition and optical illusions, in brain injury, and in particle demixing mechanisms in pharmaceuticals, in ceramics, and even on asteroids.