TU Wien

Institute of Materials Science and Technology (IMST), Technische Universität Wien (TUW) was founded in 1815, the Technische Universität Wien (TUW) is renowned for its long tradition. It finds high international and domestic recognition in teaching as well as in research and as partner of innovation-oriented enterprises.

Project

Research at the TUW involves many different areas: from multiple basic science disciplines to the development of modern production technologies, information and communication technologies as well as financial mathematics. TUW is Austria’s largest engineering university with more than 20.000 students and 3.500 employees.

The IMST is part of the mechanical engineering department of TUW, it currently has 90 employees, and is involved in research projects covering the full range of engineering materials, from metals over polymers and composites to ceramic materials. In the recent years IMST has gained substantial expertise in the development of innovative systems lithography-based additive manufacturing technologies (AMT). Our AMT team consists of laser scientists, materials scientists, bioengineers and chemists.

Achievment

Main Expertise in respect to INCITE:

Coordination of EU-projects: IMST has participated in a number of EU-projects. Besides support from IMST-employees, TUW has established a central facility (EU project management unit), which supports the individual departments in the management of European projects.

Systems and processes for AMT: IMST is part of the mechanical engineering department of TUW and has gained excellent expertise in the development of innovative systems for materials testing and lithography-based AMT, with a particular attention to high resolution biomaterials processing and regenerative medicine.

Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov

Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov is Head of the Research Group 3D Printing and Biofabrication of the Technische Universität Wien (TUW). He is a member of the Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration and was recently elected to the board of directors of the international society of biofabrication. His research is dealing with the use of additive manufacturing technologies and bioprinting for tissue engineering and regeneration. Aleksandr has a background in laser physics and material processing with femtosecond lasers. A particular focus his current research is the development of multiphoton lithography technologies for engineering of biomimetic 3D cell culture matrices and realization of novel tissue engineering scaffolds. He was awarded a prestigious Starting Grant in 2012 and a Consolidator Grant in 2017 from the European Research Council (ERC) for projects aimed at these topics.
Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov
Dr. Aleksandr Ovsianikov
TU Wien
Dr. Olivier Guillaume
Dr. Olivier Guillaume
TU Wien

Dr. Olivier Guillaume

Dr. Olivier Guillaume has an educational background in biomaterials, polymer chemistry and tissue engineering, extended with several postdoctoral stays in several European countries (Trinity College in Dublin-IE, AO Foundation in Davos-CH and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna-AT). Since 2018 until now, he has been working as Univ. Assist. at the TU Wien in the group of Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov, the 3D Printing and Biofabrication Group. He received last year a Stand-Alone funding from FWF, where the main aim is to recreate in vitro a biofilm, mimicking the one formed in the lung of Cystic Fibrosis Patients affected by chronic lung infection, in order to develop new therapeutic modalities. He is also involved in numerous project related to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Within INCITE he supports the tasks described in WP2: dealing with the chemical surface functionalization of the scaffold to optimize the cellular growth within the microchip.

Dr. Julia Fernández-Pérez

Julia Fernández-Pérez is a Postdoctoral researcher at TU Wien in the 3D Printing and Biofabrication Group (Institute of Materials Science and Technology) lead by Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov. Within INCITE he supports the tasks described in WP2: dealing with the chemical surface functionalization of the scaffold to optimize the cellular growth within the microchip. Before moving to Vienna, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Lorenzo Moroni’s lab at the MERLN Institute in Maastricht (The Netherlands). Her project focused on the development of scaffolds for coronary artery regeneration fabricated via additive manufacturing and modular hydrogels for 3D cell culture. She completed her PhD at the Trinity Center for Biomedical Engineering in Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) on the development of alternatives to traditional corneal transplantation using tissue engineering approaches, focusing on the use of decellularized matrices, under the supervision of Prof. Mark Ahearne. She graduated from the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) where she obtained her MSc in Molecular Bioengineering. Her master thesis was undertaken at the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials Dresden, under the supervision of Dr. Laura J Bray and Prof. Carsten Werner. She received a BSc in Human Biology from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain). She did her undergraduate research project at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at Prof. Elisabeth Engel’s lab.
Dr. Julia Fernández-Pérez
Dr. Julia Fernández-Pérez
TU Wien