Professor Suslick received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1978, and came to the University of Illinois immediately thereafter. He is a professor in the departments of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, and a part-time faculty member in the Bioimaging Science and Technology group.
He is the recipient of the ACS Senior Cope Scholar Award, the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education, the Materials Research Society Medal, an NIH Research Career Development Award, a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, and the Silver Medal of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce; he is a Fellow of the AAAS and the Acoustical Society of America