Prof. Dr. Tiago G. Fernandes received a Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa in 2009. He is an assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a research scientist at the Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lisbon, Portugal. He held a temporary position as an invited visiting professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, in 2020. His work is focused on providing an integrated platform that brings together engineering and biology to accelerate progress toward designing the stem cell fate and its microenvironment. In 2008, he received the prestigious Malcolm Lilly Award which was presented by the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Science.