Roger J. Narayan is a distinguished professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He currently leads the Materials Research Society Bio Staging Task Force on 3D/Bioprinting. He has previously served as director of the TMS Functional Materials Division, the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee, and the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. As the 2016-7 ASME Swanson Fellow, he worked with America Makes, the national additive manufacturing institute, on several activities to disseminate additive manufacturing technology, including the development of a workforce/education/outreach roadmap for additive manufacturing and the development of a repository containing educational materials related to additive manufacturing. He has been the director of a Science Saturday outreach program at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences since 2010. He has received several honors for his research activities, including the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the TMS Functional Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award. He has been elected as a Fellow of AAAS, ASME, ASM International, AIMBE, the American Ceramic Society, and the Materials Research Society.