Contributors
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Fernando Dourado.is.a.faculty.member.in.the.Department. of. Biological. Engineering. at. the. University. of.
Minho..With.a.PhD.in.chemical.and.biological.engineering,.he.is.a.member.of.the.FUNCARB.(. FUNctional.
CARBohydrates.Nanobiotechnology).Group,.integrating. the. Centre. of. Biological. Engineering. (CEB). of.
. University.of.Minho,.a.part.of.the.Associated.Laboratory. Institute. of. Biotechnology. and. Bio. engineering.
(IBB).. He. has. been. working. on. the. development. of.
bacterial.cellulose.(BC)-based.films.for.biotechnological. and. biomedical. applications.. These. activities.
include.the.production.of.BC.composite.films.and.the.
surface.modification.of.BC.nanofibers..In.parallel,.he.has.been.working.on.the.
development.of.a.large-scale.BC.. production.system.
Annika Enejder. received. her. PhD. in. physics. at. the.
Department.of.Atomic.Physics,.Lund.University..In.subsequent.years,.she.was.a.postdoctoral.fellow.at.MIT.and.
Ludwig-Maximillian. University.. She. is. currently. an.
ers.University.of.Technology,.a.visiting.associate.professor. in. materials. science. and. engineering. at. Stanford.
University,.as.Marie.Curie.Fellow,.chair.of.the.European.
Network.for.Coherent.Raman.Microscopy.(microCoR),.
and.national.coordinator.for.Sweden.in.EuroBioImaging,. promoting. access. to. infrastructure. for. biological.
and. medical. imaging.. Her. current. research. interests.
include. nonlinear. optical. microscopy,. nonlinear. plasmonics.and.near-field.microscopy,.Raman.spectroscopy,.and.their.applications.
within.cell.and.molecular.biology,.medicine,.and.tissue.engineering.
Wolfgang Fried. was. educated. at. the. Technical. University. Ilmenau. and. at. Friedrich. Schiller. University,.
where. he. received. both. his. PhD. and. Habilitation..
Throughout.his.career,.he.has.worked.on.research.projects. as. diverse. as. the. development. of. software. for.
computer-. animated.manufacturing,.high-temperature.
sensors. for. space. technology,. and. patient-. specific.
ceramic. implants. in. surgical. reconstruction. for.
humans.. For. sixteen. years,. he. headed. the. working.
group. “Modelling. and. Simulation”. at. the. Faculty. of.
Physics. and. Astronomy. at. Friedrich. Schiller. University. and. is. now. on. the. board. of. directors. of. the. Polymet. Jena. Association..
He has.c . onducted.research.on.bacterial.cellulose.for.more.than.a decade.
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Fernando Dourado.is.a.faculty.member.in.the.Department. of. Biological. Engineering. at. the. University. of.
Minho..With.a.PhD.in.chemical.and.biological.engineering,.he.is.a.member.of.the.FUNCARB.(. FUNctional.
CARBohydrates.Nanobiotechnology).Group,.integrating. the. Centre. of. Biological. Engineering. (CEB). of.
. University.of.Minho,.a.part.of.the.Associated.Laboratory. Institute. of. Biotechnology. and. Bio. engineering.
(IBB).. He. has. been. working. on. the. development. of.
bacterial.cellulose.(BC)-based.films.for.biotechnological. and. biomedical. applications.. These. activities.
include.the.production.of.BC.composite.films.and.the.
surface.modification.of.BC.nanofibers..In.parallel,.he.has.been.working.on.the.
development.of.a.large-scale.BC.. production.system.
Annika Enejder. received. her. PhD. in. physics. at. the.
Department.of.Atomic.Physics,.Lund.University..In.subsequent.years,.she.was.a.postdoctoral.fellow.at.MIT.and.
Ludwig-Maximillian. University.. She. is. currently. an.
ers.University.of.Technology,.a.visiting.associate.professor. in. materials. science. and. engineering. at. Stanford.
University,.as.Marie.Curie.Fellow,.chair.of.the.European.
Network.for.Coherent.Raman.Microscopy.(microCoR),.
and.national.coordinator.for.Sweden.in.EuroBioImaging,. promoting. access. to. infrastructure. for. biological.
and. medical. imaging.. Her. current. research. interests.
include. nonlinear. optical. microscopy,. nonlinear. plasmonics.and.near-field.microscopy,.Raman.spectroscopy,.and.their.applications.
within.cell.and.molecular.biology,.medicine,.and.tissue.engineering.
Wolfgang Fried. was. educated. at. the. Technical. University. Ilmenau. and. at. Friedrich. Schiller. University,.
where. he. received. both. his. PhD. and. Habilitation..
Throughout.his.career,.he.has.worked.on.research.projects. as. diverse. as. the. development. of. software. for.
computer-. animated.manufacturing,.high-temperature.
sensors. for. space. technology,. and. patient-. specific.
ceramic. implants. in. surgical. reconstruction. for.
humans.. For. sixteen. years,. he. headed. the. working.
group. “Modelling. and. Simulation”. at. the. Faculty. of.
Physics. and. Astronomy. at. Friedrich. Schiller. University. and. is. now. on. the. board. of. directors. of. the. Polymet. Jena. Association..
He has.c . onducted.research.on.bacterial.cellulose.for.more.than.a decade.