Norman Birge received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the University of Chicago, studying the glass transition in supercooled liquids. He changed his focus to electronic transport during his post-doctoral work at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He came to Michigan State University in 1988 and has been there ever since, aside from two sabbatical years with the Groupe Quantronique at the CEA Saclay in France and a COVID-shortened visit with Geoffrey Beach’s group at MIT in 2020. His research has spanned several topics in quantum transport and mesoscopic physics, including 1/f noise and universal conductance fluctuations, dissipative quantum tunneling of defects in metals, electron phase coherence at very low temperatures, the superconducting proximity effect, and nonequilibrium phenomena in mesoscopic metallic systems. His current research focuses on the interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in hybrid structures, with an emphasis on the generation and control of spin-triplet supercurrent in ferromagnetic Josephson junction