Cláudia Lobato da Silva received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering (Biotechnology), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisboa (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, UTL), Portugal, in 2001, and got a Ph.D. in Biotechnology in 2006 at IST-UTL in collaboration with the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa. Cláudia Lobato da Silva’s research interests at the Stem Cell Engineering Research Group (SCERG) of iBB - Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, IST, include expansion of human stem cells, cellular therapies with human adult stem cells and bioreactors for stem cell culture. She is co-author of more than 90 scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals and 15 book chapters. Presently, She is Member of the Scientific Council of IST and Coordinator of the Biomedical Engineering course at IST. In 2015-2019 She was the Vice-President of the Portuguese Society of Stem Cells and Cellular Therapies (Sociedade Portuguesa de Células Estaminais e Terapias Celulares (SPCE-TC)).