Michael Gelinsky
TU Dresden,
Germany
Michael Gelinsky received his PhD in Chemistry from Freiburg University (Germany). In 1999 he moved to TU Dresden and worked for around 10 years at the department of Materials Science, heading his own group at the newly founded Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials from 2002. In 2010 he was appointed Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and head of the Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research (tu-dresden.de/med/tfo).
His work is focused on biomaterials and scaffold development, tissue engineering and regenerative therapies, mostly for musculoskeletal tissues. His group is also very active in the field of additive manufacturing of scaffolds and biofabrication technologies. Beside applications in medicine his lab is also interested in bioprinting of non-mammalian cells for biotechnological purposes and Engineered Living Materials – and in investigating opportunities for bioprinting in space.
Michael Gelinsky is currently President of the German Society for Biomaterials, is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Biofabrication (ISBF) and has been elected as Fellow Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FEBS) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2020.
He acted as coordinator of a so-called Topical Team on “3D Bioprinting of living tissue for utilisation in space exploration and extraterrestrial human settlements” for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is member of the ESA Facility Science Team (FST) for the development of space bioprinting devices. His lab has been defined as ESA Ground-based Facility for 3D bioprinting.
