Biography
I am Group Leader of the Bioinspired Oral Biomaterials and Interfaces (BOBI) Lab and ICREA Research Professor at the Dpt. of Materials Science and Engineering of the UPC-Technical University of Catalonia since September 2024. I am a materials engineer by training. I started my academic career at UPC, but moved to University of Minnesota (UMN) where I spent 12+ years in the Dpt. of Restorative Sciences and was Deputy Director of the Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics. I returned to Barcelona as FBA fellow at UIC Barcelona–Universitat International de Catalunya, where I was Vice-rector for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer and director of the Study and Control of Oral Infections Research Group. I am also associated researcher at IBEC-Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia and elected fellow of AIMBE-American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.