Pedro L. Granja was born in 1970, in Porto, Portugal. His high school studies took place in Porto, Portugal, and São Paulo, Brazil. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Porto (UP) in 1993 and obtained his PhD in Engineering Sciences in 2001 as a result of studies carried out at INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomedica (UP) and INSERM U.1026 - BIOTIS (University of Bordeaux, France). He carried out post-doctoral studies at INEB, was visiting scientist at the University of Michigan (USA, 2004) and Invited Professor at the University Paris 13 (France, 2009). He is presently Group Leader at i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde. His research interests lie at the intersection between materials science, biology and medicine, namely on the development of biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. His main research focus is on biofabrication of molecularly designed biofunctional hydrogels as artificial 3D extracellular matrices. He received the 2006 Jean Leray Award by the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) and is internationally reputed as founder (1998) and Editor-in-Chief of the Biomaterials Network (Biomat.net). He serves as expert for several national and international funding agencies, organizations and companies. So far he has authored more than 100 articles in international journals, 2 books, 10 book chapters, 2 patents and presented over 170 invited lectures worldwide. At present he has an h-index of 39 (Google Scholar) and his publications have been cited almost 5000 times.