ERA Chair Holder

Helena Azevedo is the ERA Chair Holder of the MOBILIsE Project and is the group leader of the Molecular Biomaterials research group at INEB/i3S.

Before, she was a Reader in Biomedical Engineering & Biomaterials at the School of Engineering & Materials Science in Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where she took different roles and responsibilities. She was the Programme Director of the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering (2016-2022) and the Director of Operations of the Institute of Bioengineering at QMUL (2015-2017).

Outside academia, she acted as Associate Editor of the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (Wiley) from 2018 to 2021 and has been a Member of the Advisory Board of the RSC journal Molecular Systems Design & Engineering since 2016. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) since 2017, and was appointed Member of the Materials Chemistry Division Council (RSC) in 2021. In 2021 she also became Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal Peptide Science (Wiley).

Her work focusses on self-assembling biomaterial platforms for cell culture, drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and biosensing. She is author of >100 publications, including papers in Science, Nat Chem, Nat Comm, Adv Funct Mater, Nano Lett, Adv Health Mater. She has also edited 3 books on natural-based biomaterials, self-assembling biomaterials and soft matter for biomedical applications.