Dr. Maria-Godoy Gallardo, new senior PostDoc researcher

Dr. Maria Godoy-Gallard has recently joined BAMBBI as full time senior PostDoc researcher. She will be working on developing contact-based antimicrobial properties for bone crafts and designing "smart" biomaterials and surfaces capable of responding to both physiological and external stimuli, which will allow situation-dependent "on-off" switches for a wide range of biomedical applications.

Dr. Godoy graduated in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2008 and in Material Engineering from UB/UPC in 2009 before completing a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at UPC in 2011. She then pursued her PhD at UPC from 2010 to 2015 at the BBT (UPC), where she worked on the development of various antibacterial coatings for dental implants to prevent peri-implantitis, and completed three external stays, including two at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Following her PhD, Maria moved to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) just outside Copenhagen (2015-2019) with a DFF Mobilex COFUND Fellowship, where her research focused on the co-delivery of growth factors to enhance the bone-tissue response of implemented scaffolds, and developed advanced micro-reactors and artificial organelles for performing multiple enzymatic reactions within living cells. Maria was then granted a Beatriu de Pinós COFUND Fellowship, which brought her back to Spain. At the International University of Catalonia (UIC), she then concentrated on the development of 3D printable and cell-functionalized guanosine-based hydrogels for improved soft-tissue engineering, wound healing, and cartilage regeneration.