Jorge Carvalho Silva graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Coimbra in 1989 and completed a Ph.D. in Surface Physics at the Nova University of Lisbon and the Université Paris-Sud in 2003. He is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of Nova Faculty of Science and Technology. His main scientific interests are Skin, Bone/Cartilage and Nervous Tissue Regeneration using natural origin, immunomodulatory, and antimicrobial biomaterials. He is currently the leader of the Tissue Engineering Research Group he created in 2007 and a member of the Soft and Biofunctional Materials Group of Cenimat / i3N. As of April 2025, he supervised or co-supervised six completed doctoral theses and more than 70 master's dissertations. He currently supervises one and co-supervises three ongoing doctoral theses. He is co-author of 78 articles published in international journals with reviewers and six book chapters, having published 46 articles in the previous five years. Thus far, his work has received 2300 citations, and its h-index is 24 (Scopus data).