Damia Mawad
University of New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Damia Mawad has been appointed a lecturer at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW Australia in August 2015 after completing her Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship in Imperial College London, UK. From 2008 to 2012, she was a Research Fellow at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong. Her research interests are in polymeric biomaterials applied in tissue engineering. One of her main investigations is development of electroactive and conductive scaffolds for biomedical applications with emphasis on material chemistry and design strategies that transition from a monomer to a polymer to 3D construct. Examples include conductive porous hydrogels that induce cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation and conductive bioadhesives for cell alignment and photoadhesion to tissue. Recent research output in Science Advances on how to manipulate the cardiac conduction velocity after a heart attack was featured in international news outlets attesting to the novelty of the investigations.
Abstract
Abstract : Flexible and soft bioelectronics for the biotic/abiotic interface
