Visiting Assistant Professor / Core Fellow
Boston College
Blackstone, Massachusetts, United States
Dr. Luke Perreault is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Engineering and Core Fellow at Boston College. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Glenn Gaudette at Boston College, focusing on sustainable methods for scale-up of cellular agriculture and plant-based biomaterial development. He received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Tufts University in 2021, advised by Dr. Lauren Black III. During his Ph.D. he was an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow, studying how age-related changes in cardiac tissue remodeling might inform therapeutic development. He was also a fellow of the Tufts Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT), training in interdisciplinary teaching and pedagogy. As an educator, he enjoys helping students to pursue their own ideas and scientific questions, while emphasizing the importance for engineers to consider the broader impacts of their work within an interconnected global community.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
9:20 AM – 9:30 AM PDT