Gianluca Cidonio

Dr Gianluca Cidonio is an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track Researcher) and Principal Investigator of the MoRe (Model and Regenerate) 3D Lab at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at Sapienza University of Rome. He is also a Junior Fellow of the Superior School for Advanced studies Sapienza (SSAS).

Dr Cidonio obtained his BSc and MSc in Biomedical Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, with a 12-month MSc Fellowship to visit Temple University and completed his PhD at the University of Southampton (UK), within the Bone & Joint Research Group led by Prof. Richard Oreffo, where he developed nanocomposite bioinks for skeletal tissue regeneration. He was subsequently awarded the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship to advance printable living bone constructs and joined in 2019 the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as Postdoctoral Fellow and Team Leader of the Bioprinting lab, where he pioneered microfluidic-assisted bioprinting approaches for regenerative medicine and disease modelling. Dr Cidonio is the recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards, including the AIRC ALDI Fellowship and the €1.99M ERC Starting Grant (BRIDGE). Dr Cidonio’s research focuses on engineering complex 3D tissue interfaces through microfluidic bioprinting for translational applications in musculoskeletal regeneration and cancer modelling. He is actively engaged in scientific dissemination as Communications Officer for TERMIS-EU, editorial board member for leading bioprinting journals, and lecturer in regenerative medicine engineering at Sapienza University