@BSTE 
@ARGOS Confirmed Speakers
Marcy Zenobi-Wong
Marcy Zenobi-Wong is a tenured Full Professor of Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication and Director of the Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. She is a Mechanical Engineer by training, and received her Bachelor degree from MIT and Master/PhD from Stanford University. She leads a multidisciplinary team with strong focus on biofabrication technologies including bioprinting, two-photon polymerization, and casting, and on the development of advanced biomaterials for tissue regeneration. She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications (cited over 5000 times) and co-inventor on several licensed patents. She is an honorary member of the Swiss Society for Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine (SSB+RM) and General Secretary for the International Society of Biofabrication (ISBF). She serves on the editorial board for Biofabrication and Advanced Healthcare Materials. In 2019 she was elected as Fellow to the European Alliance for Medical & Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES).
Jaap den Toonder is full professor and chair of the Microsystems section at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He received his master’s degree in applied mathematics in 1991 (cum laude), and his PhD degree in mechanical engineering in 1996 (cum laude), both from Delft University of Technology. In 1995, he joined Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, where he worked on a wide variety of applications. In 2008, he became chief technologist, leading the R&D programs on (micro-)fluidics and materials science and engineering. Next to his main job at Philips, he was a part-time professor of Microfluidics Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology between 2004 and 2013.
Professor Shulamit Levenberg is the head of the Stem cell and Tissue engineering lab at the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and the director of the Technion Center for 3D Bioprinting. She earned her PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science and pursued her post-doctoral research at MIT in the lab of Professor Robert Langer. She spent a sabbatical year as a visiting professor at the Wyss Institute for Biology Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and a summer sabbatical at the University of Western Australia as a winner of the Raine Visiting Professor Award. Prof. Levenberg research involve in vitro vascularization of engineered tissues where, upon implantation, the engineered vessels anastomose with the host vasculature, improving survival and perfusion of engineered grafts. Prof. Levenberg was the first to engineer vascularized tissue flaps, offering novel reconstruction techniques using engineered tissue constructs. Her pioneering work demonstrated the effect of scaffold stiffness and tensile forces on early differentiation and organization of stem cells in 3D constructs, and on alignment of vessel networks in engineered tissues. She recently developed unique stem-cell engineered tissue constructs that induce the regeneration and repair of injured spinal cords and a genetically engineered muscle tissue for treatment of type 2 diabetes. Prof Levenberg was named by Scientific American as a “Research Leader” in tissue engineering and received numerous prizes. The most recent ones include the Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Sciences, the Michael Bruno Memorial Award, the Katz prize and a Medal of Distinction from the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation She is founder and CSO of three start-up companies in the areas of cultured meat, spinal cord regeneration and nanoliter diagnostic arrays. Prof Levenberg is the former President of the Israel Stem Cell Society and the former Dean of the Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. ir. Seppe Terryn received his PhD in 2019 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in which he combined smart materials and robotics and developed a new multidisciplinary field “self-healing soft robots”. He is currently working as Postdoctoral researcher with a personal grant of the FWO and is co-managing three European projects; FET Open SHERO on self-healing soft robots, the EU Marie Curie ITN SMART on smart materials for robots, the EIC Transition on self-healing materials for sustainable products and an FWO SBO AMSER on additive manufacturing of self-healing robots. In these projects, he is currently guiding a team of 10 PhD students working on increasing the TRL-level of self-healing soft robots and soft electronics towards industrial applications, while performing fundamental research on self-healing polymers/composites, (additive) manufacturing, self-healing sensors and actuators. 
