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Dr Damia Mawad
Lecturer
PhD (2007)
Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Australia
Damia Mawad received her PhD in
Biomedical Engineering in 2007 from
University of New South Wales. She
started her academic career as a
post-doctoral fellow in University of
Lyon, France. From 2008 to 2012,
she was a Research Fellow at the
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute
(IPRI), University of Wollongong. She
was then awarded IN 2013 a Marie
Curie International Incoming
Fellowship hosted by Imperial College
London, UK. In August 2015, she has
been appointed a lecturer at the
School of Materials Science and
Engineering, UNSW.
Her research interests are in polymeric
biomaterials applied in tissue
engineering and drug delivery. One of
her main investigations is
development of electroactive and
conductive scaffolds for biomedical
applications with emphasis on the
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 with micropatterned
surfaces for cell alignment and
photoadhesion to tissue. Recent
research interests include control of
the conduction anisotropy in
conjugated polymers to better match
the hierarchical organization and
sophisticated architectures found in
biological tissues.