Affiliation: Federal University of ABC, Center of Natural and Human Sciences, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

Dr. Thais Vieira de Souza obtained her PhD in Biotechnoscience at the Federal University of ABC (Brazil) in 2021. Her project was entitled ‘Synthesis and Characterization of Chitosan/Hyaluronic Acid-Based Thermogel for Bioink Production and 3D Bioprinting Applied to Cartilaginous Tissue Engineering’. She had a visiting period at the Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine - MERLN (Netherlands, 2019). She has obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology from the Federal University of Amazonas (Brazil, 2013) and Master in Biotechnoscience from the Federal University of ABC (Brazil, 2017).

She was an intern at the Medical University of Lodz (Poland, 2011), where she collaborated in the Genetic Research Project for Metabolic Syndromes. She was awarded with an Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) scholarship and had a chance to visit the Thompson Rivers University (2013) where she worked with Environmental Microbiology (Canada, 2013). She was also an intern at West Pomeranian University of Technology (Poland, 2014), researching the effects of adding inulin to the piglet diet.