Fernando Jorge Monteiro is a group leader at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, National Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and professor at Faculty of Engineering, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Porto. He received a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in 1986. He is the leader of the biocomposites group at i3S (Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto) and has published >150 scientific manuscripts. His scientific activities focus on biocomposites for drug release, tissue regeneration, antimicrobial biomaterials, surface modifications, nanomaterial interactions with proteins, biomarkers for cell targeting, and microfluidic devices for liquid biopsy.