Luke Perreault is a Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor in Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University (2021), and a B.S. (2015) and M.Eng. (2016) in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His research intersects biomedical engineering and cellular agriculture, through the development of sustainable, plant-based biomaterials for engineered tissues. 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. 

Luke previously worked as a postdoctoral associate in the BC Department of Engineering, under Department Chair Prof. Glenn Gaudette, developing methods to repurpose agricultural waste as edible scaffolds for cultured meat production. An advocate for the department’s dedicated approach to human-centered engineering, he enjoys helping students 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.