Jonathan F. Lovell is an Empire Innovation Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 2012 and started as a UB faculty in the same year. Dr. Lovell’s work has been recognized with awards including the NIH Early Independence Award, the Biomedical Engineering Society Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER award, and the Porphyrin Society Young Investigator Award. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Lovell has co-authored over 200 peer reviewed manuscripts.