Henrique Vazão de Almeida received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Materials Engineering from Universidade NOVA (2007).
Before starting his Ph.D., he worked in the Biomaterials field for 5 years (Industry-based). Henrique graduated in 2016 with
his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Daniel J. Kelly and Fergal O’Brien as supervisors). In 2016,
Henrique started to work as a Postdoc at Lino Ferreira’s Lab (University of Coimbra), and in 2017 he was awarded an FCT postdoctoral
fellowship. In the context of the postdoctoral fellowship in cardiac tissue engineering, he moved to ITQB/iBET (2018). In
2019, he was awarded a junior PI funding (iBETXplore) to execute a project in the context of 3D bioprinted tissues for drug
screening and disease modeling. In 2021, Henrique was awarded the “Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus - 3rd
Edition” fellowship. In the context of his recently granted award, Henrique moved to CENIMAT|i3N (2022).

Henrique is a bioengineer, material engineer, and expert in nature-derived biomaterials. He is interested in novel tissue
engineering and regenerative medicine approaches to restore damaged biological tissues and bioengineer in vitro models. Currently,
he is focused on developing cardiac tissue engineering strategies based on conductive biomaterials. He also started to work
with point-of-care devices for disease management and regenerative medicine.