MARIA PIA DE MELO ALVIM FERRAZ TAVARES. Completed the Habilitation title in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2023/04/21 by Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, PhD in Engineering Sciences in 2000 by Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and Degree in Food Engineering in 1996 by Escola Superior de Biotecnologa Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is a Researcher at Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde Universidade do Porto and Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. She has published 71 articles in journals. Her reserach iterests are: Drug release; Dental Medicine; Hydroxyapatite; Cytotoxicity; Surface modification; Nanoparticles; Antibacterial; Microsphere; Cell adhesion; Bone Regeneration; Gene therapy; Excimer laser; nanocomposites; bone regeneration; controlled release of drugs; tissue engineering; Bone infection; Biofilm associated with biomaterials; nanohydroxyapatite and antibiotic resistance.