Ioannis Papantoniou is currently an Associate Professor at KU Leuven. He is the Head of the Tissue Engineering Lab of the Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Centre, Department of Development & Regeneration, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven. He is also Director of Prometheus, the translational division for Skeletal Tissue Engineering of Leuven R&D, the TTO of KU Leuven. He has obtained his Chemical Engineering Degree from the University of Patras (2003) and his PhD on Biochemical Engineering from UCL, London (2008) as an IKY scholar. He is member of the TERMIS EU and BELSACT research society councils. He is currently leading a team of 10 PhD and 2 Postdocs and has published more than 85 scientific journal manuscripts (including Nature Comms, Cell Stem Cells, Advanced science, Nature Reviews in Bioengineering) and holds 3 patents. His research activities have been supported by numerous grants from international (H2020, Interreg), National (FWO, RegmedXB) and institutional (Internal KU Leuven funds) sources.