Professor Hart is the Edgar C. Hendrickson Designated Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He earned B.E.S. (Bachelor of Engineering Science, 1975) and M.S. (Engineering Mechanics, 1977) degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia Tech subsequently awarded him a yearlong World Student Fund scholarship to study Biomechanics at the Technische Universität in Berlin (West) Germany from 1977-78. Upon his return, he enrolled in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio (Ph.D. awarded January 1983). He joined the faculty in Tulane’s Department of Biomedical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in December 1982. He served as Department Chair at Tulane’s Department of Biomedical Engineering from 1997-2006, and in 2001 was appointed as the Alden J. “Doc” Laborde Professor of Engineering. He came to Ohio State University in 2006 as Chair of the newly created Department of Biomedical Engineering. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and in 2001 he was given the American Society for Engineering Education’s Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award. In 2004 he and co-authors shared the Association of International Glaucoma Societies Award. He has completed two terms as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering and is currently on the Editorial Board for the journal Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, and in 2006 was elected to the board of directors for the Biomedical Engineering Society, was elected a fellow in 2010, and currently serves as the Secretary for the Society.His research interests are in finite element analysis of biological tissues and structures, with a primary focus on work that seeks to describe, simulate, and predict the response of bone tissue to mechanical stimuli. In addition, he has collaborated on research projects in brain physics, spine mechanics, and ophthalmology. Most recently he is using MicroCT methods to develop computational models of hard tissues, as well as collaborating on a project to model the mechanical communication of cells seeded in collagenous gels.