Cristina BARRIAS profile

Cristina Barrias is a Principal Investigator and Group Leader at i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, as well as an Invited Associate Professor at Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto. She also serves as Vice-President of Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB). Additionally, Cristina is the Vice-President and Journal Liaison Officer of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) and the Managing Editor of Materials Today Bio.

The Bioengineered 3D Microenvironments research group at i3S focuses on bottom-up tissue engineering strategies, employing molecularly designed hydrogels, "living (micro)materials" such as organoids, spheroids, and cell-laden microgels, biofabrication techniques, and microfluidic devices. Current research centers on engineering perfusable capillary networks for tissue/organ/organoid (micro)vascularization. For more information, please visit the group’s website at www.i3s.up.pt.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zyC8NFYAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8178-6134