Kevin D. Belfield received the B.S. degree in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology, the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Syracuse University, and performed postdoctoral research at SUNY College of Environmental and Forestry in polymer chemistry and at Harvard University in mechanistic organic chemistry and photochemistry. After faculty positions at the University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Central Florida, including 10 years as Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Belfield joined NJIT as Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science in November 2014. In addition he is the Becton Dickinson Endowed Research Professor at NJIT. Belfield was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2013 and Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2019. Belfield is a pioneer in multiphoton photochemistry and photonic materials, with research interests ranging from developing contrast agents for early detection of cancer and neurological diseases, development of novel non-viral gene delivery vectors, and new paradigms for photodynamic cancer therapy.