Professor Gallant joined the USF faculty in August 2008 following a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Polymers Division. He graduated with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Cooperative Education Certificate from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. He went on to earn M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Professor Gallant's research interests include cellular biomechanics, biomaterials, and tissue engineering. He is an NSF CAREER award winner for his work developing combinatorial biomaterials for mechanobiology.