Susana Sousa graduated in Chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP) in 1986. In 1988 she started to work as a researcher at Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB). Her MSc studies were performed at INEB and she obtained her Master in Materials Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 1992. Her PhD studies were also conducted at INEB and at Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC) and on July 2007, she got her PhD in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at FEUP. She is a Professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP, IPP) since 1993. The major research interests are focused on the adsorption of extracellular matrix proteins/peptides on 3D matrices to be used in tissue regeneration, as well as on target molecules-delivery systems for metastatic bone tumours study, and bone infection control. This includes the following topics: - Design of 3D scaffolds of nanohydroxyapatite / collagen nanofibers. - In vitro development of co-culture models to mimic bone tumour or bone infection microenvironment. - Surface characterisation of biomaterials.