Joel H. Collier, PhD is a Professor at Duke University in the Biomedical Engineering Department. His research focuses on designing novel biomolecular materials for applications within immunotherapies, three-dimensional cell culture, and tissue repair. He received his undergraduate degree in Materials Science from Rice University and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. From 2007 he was a faculty member in the Surgery Department at the University of Chicago, and he moved to Duke Biomedical Engineering in 2016. He currently sits on the editorial advisory boards of Acta Biomaterialia, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, and Biomaterials Science. He has won awards including an NSF CAREER award and the 2015 Biomaterials Science Lectureship, he was co-Chair of the 2017 Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, and he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE).