Anibal Boscoboinik is a Materials Scientist at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2010 and was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany from 2011 to 2013. His research focuses on model-system studies of 2D-porous materials using ambient pressure surface science methods. He specializes in ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS) and infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS).