Lorenzo Moroni#
| Membership Number: | 6090 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.moronilab.org/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1298-6025 |
| Twitter: | @MoroniGroup |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-moroni-356406/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - today Director MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University
- 2019 - 2022 Vice-Director MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University
- 2019 - today Chair of Complex Tissue Regeneration Department; MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University
- 2016 - today Professor of Biofabrication for Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University
- 2014 - 2016 Associate Professor at Maastricht University in the Complex Tissue Regeneration department
- 2013 - 2014 Associate Professor (tenured) at Twente University in the Tissue Regeneration department
- 2010 - 2013 Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Twente University in the Tissue Regeneration department
- 2010 - 2013 Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Screvo B.V., a spin-off company commercializing devices enabling 3D screening in vivo. Screvo is one of the winner of the Innovation AveNEW award 2013 from the society for laboratory automation and screening
- 2009 - 2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Twente University, The Netherlands, in the Tissue Regeneration department
- 2008 - 2009 Research & Development director of Musculoskeletal Cell & Tissue Bank - Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Italy
- 2007 - 2008 Post-Doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, USA, in the Biomedical Engineering department – Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering research group (Prof. Dr. Jennifer H. Elisseeff)
Fields of Scholarship
- Biomaterials
- Regenerative medicine
- Stem cells
- Surface engineering
- Biofabrication
- Additive manufacturing
- Scaffolds
- Tissue engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Top 100 Italian Scientists worldwide within 40 years old )European Institute of Italian Culture).
- 2016 Young Scientist Award for Outstanding Young Investigators from Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society.
- 2014 Jean Leray Award for Outstanding Young Investigators from European Society of Biomaterials.
- 2014 ERC laureate (Starting Grant)
- 2007 European Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering International Doctorate Award from European Society of Biomaterials
