Dr. Joanna Long is the director of the Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (AMRIS) Facility at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Gainesville, Florida, and a professor of biochemistry at the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 for work with Robert Griffin on applying solid-state NMR techniques to the study of peptide and lipid structure and dynamics. She then pursued postdoctoral research with Patrick Stayton and Gary Drobny at the University of Washington studying protein structure and dynamics at mineral and polymer interfaces for tissue engineering applications. Dr. Long joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2002. In 2009, Long became director of the AMRIS Facility, where she continues to pursue her research in developing and applying magnetic resonance techniques for basic biomedical research.