Conrado APARICIO profile

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.

For two decades I have carried out multidisciplinary research on bioinspired biomaterials and interfaces for directing biological responses to repair/regenerate bone and oral mucosa as well as to prevent bacterial infections for dental applications. Using inspiration from nature’s molecules and structures, my team designs and develops bioactive surfaces using supramolecular assembly and enabling spatial-temporal control of bioactive responses.

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