Dr. Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo.  He is a Member of US National Academy of Engineering, US National Academy of Inventors, National Academy of Sciences, India and the European National Academy of Engineering.  He is a Member of the US National Materials & Manufacturing Board (NMMB) and an elected Fellow of AAAS, MRS, IEEE, APS, ASM, ACERS, IOP, WIF and WTN. He has co-authored over 380 publications and has 85 issued patents. He was ranked by Thompson-Reuters as the most cited author worldwide in the field of high temperature superconductors from 1999-2009. He is the Director of the Lab for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices, and the Director of the NYS Center of Plastics Recycling Research & Innovation at SUNY. He served as the Founding Director of the Institute on Research and Education on Energy, Environment &Water (2015-21), and is an Emeritus Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Lab. He has received numerous accolades including US Department of Energy’s E.O. Lawrence (EOL) Award in the inaugural category of Energy Science & Innovation. The EOL award is given by the USDOE Secretary on behalf of the US President. Selected additional honors include: TEN R&D 100 awards, the R&D Magazine's "Innovator-of-the-Year" award (2010), Three National Federal Lab Consortium Awards for Tech. Transfer, and the SUNY-Buffalo President’s Medal (2019), and the highest award at the University at Buffalo.