Dr. MarÃa del Mar Mesa DÃaz
University of Cádiz, Spain
Biography
Dr. María del Mar Mesa graduated in Chemistry and completed her doctorate in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cádiz (Spain) in 1998. She then applied for a posdoctoral position at the University of Geneva. Having lectured in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Technologies at the University of Cádiz for several years, Dr. Mesa took the position of assistant professor in 2004. Her research activity has primarily focused on bioprocess engineering, and is currently working on the design and preparation of polymeric scaffolds with potential applications in tissue engineering using sol-gel techniques.