Ana M. Amaro is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Coimbra and an integrated researcher at the Center of Mechanical Engineering Materials and Processes. She completed the Mechanical Engineering course at the University of Coimbra in 1990 and received a Master's and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 1994 and 2004, respectively. She completed the Habilitation degree in 2021 at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra. She works in the area of structural integrity with emphasis on Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering.
Ana P. Piedade has been an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Coimbra since 2022. She has a BSc in Biochemistry, an MSc in Cellular Biology, and a PhD and Habilitation in
Mechanical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She was the director of the Bioengineering and Polymer Synthesis Group of CEMMPRE, University of Coimbra, until 2018. Since 2022, she has been the coordinator of the Material and Process Group of CEMMPRE. She was PI of more than 12 National and International projects from competitive funding calls. She participated in more than 30 national and international evaluation panels for Post-Doc and PhD grants, as well as for research projects. Among her different and complementary competencies, those which can be highlighted include the surface modification of materials, including sputtering and “wet-chemistry” approaches, for several applications, with particular evidence in biomaterials, and 3D and 4D printing.
