Eugene Mananga is a tenured associate professor of physics at the City University of New York (CUNY), where he was the 2017 recipient of the Henry Wasser Award in Physics. In addition to his professorial responsibilities of teaching and research, Eugene has added a mentoring dimension to his duties. He is mentoring and advising students including those of Black/African and Hispanic descent, women, low-income, and other underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields during the academic years at Bronx Community College (BCC) and the Graduate Center, and during the summer research fellowships and internships at major Department of Energy national laboratories such as Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. He is currently serving as a faculty mentor for the National Science Foundation S-STEM Scholarship grant. At CUNY and BCC, Eugene has mentored students as faculty mentor in several research projects including CUNY Research Scholar Program and the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. He is also serving as a faculty mentor of graduate students at CUNY NanoBioNYC. Currently, Eugene is a selected Fellow of KAVLI Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Eugene completed his Ph.D. in physics from CUNY and his postdoctoral studies in nuclear medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds more than eight additional graduate degrees and trainings from various institutions including Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx). He was a research fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.