Edward A. Sander received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, in 2000. He earned the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. His doctoral work focused on understanding the interplay between tissue biomechanics and cellular remodeling as it relates to the onset of glaucomatous damage in the optic nerve head. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award (NRSA) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. His research interests include tissue engineering, biomechanics, and multiscale modeling of biopolymer gels, tissue analogs, and tissues.