Professor Kevin Rosso is Associate Director of the Physical Sciences Division for Geochemistry at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. Dr. Rosso is best known for his pioneering research on electron transfer reactions between aqueous ions, mineral surfaces, and bacterial enzymes. Beginning with topics such as metal sulfide oxidation, bacterial reduction of metal oxides, contaminant interactions with clay minerals, and mechanisms of crystal growth and dissolution, his research expanded into geologic carbon sequestration, stress corrosion cracking in alloys, performance optimization of lithium battery materials, and the design of semiconductor materials for solar photocatalysis. Dr. Rosso is well recognized as being at the center of the field of molecular geochemistry, a field he helped create with the inception of advanced tools such as scanning probe microscopy, quantum mechanical molecular simulations, and massively parallel supercomputers.

His research accomplishments were recognized with the Mineralogical Society of America Award in 2004, and with the Stumm Medal in 2020.