Pedro L. Granja was born in 1970 in Porto, Portugal. His high school studies took place in Porto, (Portugal) and São Paulo (Brazil). He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering at the Univ. Porto (UP) in 1993 and obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from UP in 2001 as a result of studies carried out at INEB, UP, and INSERM U.443 (Univ. Bordeaux, France). He carried out postdoctoral studies at INEB, was visiting scientist at the University of Michigan (USA, 2004), and Invited Professor at the University of Paris 13 (France, 2009). Presently, he is the Leader of the Biofabrication Group at i3S, UP. His research interests lie at the intersection between materials science, biology, and medicine, namely on the development of biomaterials for biofabrication, using principles and tools from tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Currently, he has been exploring the biofabrication of tissue constructs from cell-laden hydrogels. He is internationally reputed as the founder (1998) and Editor-in-Chief of the Biomaterials Network (Biomat.net). He was recently distinguished as a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FSBE, 2020). Moreover, he serves as an expert for several national and international funding agencies, organizations, and companies. He has authored more than 110 articles in international indexed journals, 11 book chapters, 2 patents, and presented 170 invited lectures worldwide. He has an h-index of 44. His publications have been cited over 6000 times.