{"id":31,"date":"2015-11-03T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.eng.ufl.edu\/faculty-site\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:01:50","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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  • B.Sc. – University of Florida: 1982<\/span><\/li>\n
  • M.Sc. – University of Florida: 1986<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Ph.D. – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich: 1991<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Professional Experience<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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    • University of Florida –<\/strong> J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering – & – Department of Materials Science & Engineering<\/span>\n

      UF RESEARCH FOUNDATION PROFESSOR: May, 2017 \u2013 Present <\/em>||| PROFESSOR OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING & BIOMATERIALS: February, 2011 \u2013 Present<\/em> ||| FOUNDING DIRECTOR, Institute for Cell & Tissue Science & Engineering (ICTSE): March, 2012 \u2013 Nov., 2014 <\/em>||| ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ICTSE: Dec, 2014 \u2013 Present <\/em> ||| RESEARCH SCIENTIST<\/em>: Jan. 1999 \u2013 Dec. 1999 (Also Dept. of Chemistry)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    • Keele University –<\/strong> Institute for Science and Technology in Medicine, United Kingdom<\/span>\n

      HONORARY PROFESSOR: August, 2011 \u2013 Present <\/em>||| PROFESSOR OF BIOPHYSICS & BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: May, 2003 \u2013 August, 2011 <\/em>||| HEAD OF IMAGING & DIAGNOSTICS: April, 2005 \u2013 September, 2008 ||| <\/em>READER IN BIOMATERIALS & CELL ENGINEERING: April, 2002 \u2013 May, 2003 <\/em>||| SENIOR LECTURER IN BIOMATERIALS & CELL ENGINEERING: Jan. 2000 – March, 2002<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    • University of Western Australia –<\/strong> Department of Physics, Biophysics Programme<\/span>\n

      LECTURER IN BIOPHYSICS: May, 1995 \u2013 Dec. 1998<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich)<\/strong> Department of Physics, Institute of Geophysics<\/span>\n

      WISSENSCHAFTLICHER MITARBEITER (POSTDOC): May, 1991 – April, 1995<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Societies, Honors and Awards<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n
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      • Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science – AAAS<\/em> (2015)<\/li>\n
      • Fellow: American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering – AIMBE<\/em> (2015)<\/li>\n
      • Fellow: Royal Society of Biology<\/em> (2012)<\/li>\n
      • Fellow: Royal Society of Medicine<\/em> (2007)<\/li>\n
      • Fellow: Institute of Nanotechnology <\/em>(2007)<\/li>\n
      • University of Florida Research Foundation Professor (2017 \u2013 2020)<\/li>\n
      • University of Florida Pre-eminence Term Professor (2017 \u2013 2019)<\/li>\n
      • International Journal of Nanomedicine<\/em> Distinguished Scientist Award (2017)<\/li>\n
      • UK Medical Research Council: C\u00e9sare Milstein Award<\/em> (2008)<\/li>\n
      • Royal Society of London: Wolfson Research Merit Award<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n
      • Wellcome Trust: Sir Henry Wellcome Showcase Award<\/em> (2002)<\/li>\n
      • University of Florida, Dept. of Materials Sci. & Engineering: Eminent Scholar Visiting Professor Award<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n
      • Lord Stafford Award: \u201cImpact Through Innovation\u201d<\/em> (2006 & 2008)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Brief Biography<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

        \"\"Jon Dobson graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Florida. He obtained his PhD in Natural Sciences in 1991 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich. He did his postdoctoral training in geophysics and biophysics at both the ETH-Zurich and The University of Western Australia, before taking a faculty position at Keele University in the United Kingdom. In 2011, he returned to the University of Florida as Professor of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and founding director of the Institute for Cell and Tissue Science and Engineering (ICTSE) at UF.<\/p>\n

        Dr. Dobson\u2019s research focuses on biomedical applications of magnetic micro- and nanoparticles, the role of brain iron in neurodegenerative diseases, and biomedical device design. He is a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, The Royal Society of Biology, The Royal Society of Medicine, and a past Royal Society of London Wolfson Research Merit Fellow. In 2002, he was selected for the Wellcome Trust\u2019s Sir Henry Wellcome Showcase Award<\/em>, and in 2008 the UK Medical Research Council\u2019s C\u00e9sar Milstein Award<\/em>. He is co-founder of three spin-off companies, and holds 10 patents, with 10 more pending.<\/p>\n

        Jon is the 12th Duke of Endon and 73rd in the line of succession for the throne of Great Britain.<\/em><\/p>\n

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        Education B.Sc. – University of Florida: 1982 M.Sc. – University of Florida: 1986 Ph.D. – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH-Zurich: 1991 Professional Experience University of Florida – J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering – & – Department of Materials Science & Engineering UF RESEARCH FOUNDATION PROFESSOR: May, 2017 \u2013 Present ||| PROFESSOR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/dobson-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}