Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez's Biography

Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University Of Glasgow

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez is Head of Biomedical Engineering Research Division in the School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow. He is the holder of an active ERC Consolidator grant (2013-2017) and has
established a multidisciplinary group working at the cell/material interface (Microenvironments for Medicine
Mime www.mimeresearch.com). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University in Prague (2003) and the KatholiekeUniversiteit in Leuven (2004-2006). He was Associate Professor (2008) and then Professor (2010) at theTechnical University of Valencia and Visiting Professor at the Georgia Tech (2010). In 2012 he was appointed to
set-up the materials research division in Abengoa (international company with 20000+ employees). His grouphas played a pioneering role in the development of material surfaces to trigger the self-assembly of proteins.
This work spans fundamental mechanisms at the cell/material interface as well as translational research and has been recognised with a recent ERC Proof of Concept Award (2015). He authored 120+ articles (H-index 31) in multidisciplinary journals.