Sandra Van Vlierberghe is a professor at Ghent University (pbmugent.eu). She has expertise related to the synthesis, the modification, and the processing of (bio)polymers, including thermoplasts and hydrogels, for a variety of tissue engineering applications. She is experienced in the field of polymer processing using 3D printing, electrospinning, and two-photon polymerization (2PP). She received her PhD in science in 2008 (UGent). She has authored >165 WoS papers, has an h-index of 32 (WoS), is a supervisor to 17 PhD students, and has edited three books and authored seven chapters, five of which she was invited to write. She is the treasurer of the Belgian Polymer Group (BPG), a former spokesperson for the ‘Young Scientist Forum (YSF)’, and is a TERMIS-EU council member and member of the independent ESB Award Committee. She serves on the Editorial Board of several journals focusing on tissue engineering. In 2017, she received the Jean Leray award from the European Society for Biomaterials.