Srinivas Sridhar is University Distinguished Professor of Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, and Lecturer on Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School. He is the Director and Principal Investigator of Nanomedicine Academy and the NIH CaNCURE programs, and the founding director of the Nanomedicine Innovation Center, an interdisciplinary center with research and education thrusts in nanomedicine, nanomaterials and neurotechnology. From 2004 to 2008 he served as Vice Provost for Research at Northeastern University, overseeing the University’s research portfolio. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.  Sridhar’s current areas of research are nanomedicine, neurotechnology and Quantitative MRI. His paper in Nature in 2003 was listed among Breakthroughs of 2003 by the journal Science. He has published more than 450 journal articles, patents and technical reports on his work in nanomedicine, neurotechnology, nanophotonics, metamaterials, quantum chaos, superconductivity and collective excitations in materials. A dedicated teacher and mentor, he was honored with the 2016 Biomedical Engineering Society Diversity award.