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Contributors
Joel Berry.is.an.associate.professor.in.the.Department.
of. Biomedical. Engineering. at. the. University. of.
Alabama. at. Birmingham.. His. research. has. focused.
on. the. development. of. experimental. and. computational. flow. models. for. vascular. stent. research.. This.
work. led. to. the. discovery. that. most. vascular. stents.
create. adverse. blood. flow. disturbances,. potentially.
leading. to. their. clinical. failure.. This. also. led. to. the.
invention.of.a.stent.design.that.eliminates.these.disturbances..This.flow.modeling.experience.further.led.
to. the. development. of. tissue. bio. reactors. for. engineered. arteries. and. heart. valves.. He. is. currently.
developing. mechanical. testing. methodologies. for. analyzing. the. tensile.
tions..Knowledge.of.the.mechanical.properties.of.individual.fibers.is.essential.in.designing.tissue.scaffolds.that.allow.effective.mechanotransduction.of.
seeded.cells..His.most.recent.work.includes.the.development.of.bioreactors.
to.promote.the.growth.of.tissue.scaffolds.using.bacterial-derived.cellulose.
Stanislaw Bielecki.has.been.employed.since.1970.as.
academic. teacher. in. the. Institute. of. Technical.
Biochemistry. at. the. Technical. University. of. Lodz,.
where.in.1978.he.received.a.PhD.and.in.1999.became.
a.full.professor..He.is.a.member.of.several.Polish.and.
European.federations.and.societies.for.biotechnology..
His. scientific. interests. focus. on. biocatalysis. (also. in.
nonconventional. systems),. industrial. biotechnology,.
engineering.of.biocatalysts,.enzymatic.synthesis,.and.
applications. of. oligosaccharides. and. microbial. biopolymers.including.bacterial.cellulose..He.is.an.author.
and.coauthor.of.numerous.international.patents.and.more.than.two hundred.
papers.in.these.fields..The.achievements.of.research.groups.he.has.headed.
have.been.awarded.prizes.and.medals.both.in.Poland.and.abroad.
Christian Brackmann. received. his. PhD. from. the.
Division. of. Combustion. Physics,. Department. of.
. Physics,. Lund. University. in. 2004.. During. 2005–2010.
he. worked. in. the. group. of. Molecular. Microscopy,.
. Chalmers.University.of.Technology..His.research.during. that. time. was. on. laser-based. nonlinear. optical.
microscopy.and.included.both.method.development.
as.well.as.applications.(e.g.,.in.lipidomics,.food.. science,.
and.. tissue.engineering).