Soledad Pérez

Soledad Pérez began her research career in 1998 when she was awarded a scholarship by the European Community under the Latin America Academic Formation program to work as a postgraduate fellow at the department of Clinical Biochemistry at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Biochemistry at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London. Upon completion of her postgraduate fellowship, she started her doctoral research at the department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Centre of Dentistry (ACTA) in Amsterdam. In 2006 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Oral Cell Biology at the Free University in Amsterdam. After this, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Tissue Regeneration at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. In 2007 she joined the departments of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam as a postdoctoral research fellow. Finally, in 2012 she joined the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies Group at IBEC. Her research interests include the design of scaffolds and their interaction with cells in in vitro as well as in vivo settings.