Prasad Shastri is the Professor of Biofunctional Macromolecular Chemistry and the Director at the Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry and the BIOSS Professor of Cell Signalling Environments at the University of Freiburg. He received his PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and carried out his post-doctoral work under the mentorship of Prof. Robert Langer at MIT. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and extended abstracts and authored over 60 issued/pending patents in materials science, regenerative medicine, and tumor biology. He is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) (2024). His laboratory is active in the areas of 3D-bioprinting, cellular therapeutics, cancer biology, biomaterials for controlling cellular microenvironments, in vivo engineering of tissue, nano-biomaterials, polymer synthesis, sustainable technologies and circular economy. He has published several notable papers in materials processing and engineering and on various aspects of regenerative medicine, specifically bone and cartilage tissue engineering. He is active in the MRS, TERMIS-EU, and the ACS and was the co-Chair of the Materials Research Society (MRS) fall 2020 meeting in Boston and the organizer of the Freiburg Macromolecular Colloquium, the oldest polymer meeting in the world and the largest in Europe. He has served as a guest editor on several occasions for notable journals including Advanced Materials.