Maria Helena Figueira Vaz Fernandes

General: Glasses, glass-ceramics and glass-reinforced composites for biomedical and structural applications. Transport phenomena and technological processes Current research interests: Novel glass compositions for bone regeneration strategies. Glass-containing composites, polymer-nanoparticles composites for regenerative medicine. Films and 3D structures for tissue engineering. Drug loading and delivery. Piezoelectric platforms for tissue regeneration

doctorate at Ciencia e Engenharia de Materiais from Universidade de Aveiro (1987).