Jennifer Patterson is a Researcher and Group Leader at IMDEA Materials Institute, heading a research group on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine. Previously, she was Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of BIOFABICS LDA in Portugal and registered as an independent consultant in Belgium. Prior to that, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium. She received a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Washington, and she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. This post-doctoral fellowship in the lab of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell was partially supported by the Whitaker International Program. She also worked for the start-up company, Therics, Inc., which was one of the first to apply 3D printing technologies for tissue engineering applications. Her research interests are in the areas of biomaterials and regenerative medicine, with a focus on the development of materials systems for the controlled spatial and temporal presentation of bioactive signals to stimulate tissue regeneration.