Diversity-Inclusion and Membership Committee: Esther Reina Romo

University of Seville

Spain 

Esther Reina Romo is full professor at the University of Seville (US), Spain.

She received her MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and her PhD degree in 2010, both at the US.

She has devoted her career to the mechanobiological modeling of multiple biological processes, both experimentally and computationally, with particular emphasis on bone tissue. These and other groundbreaking contributions have been recognized with multiple young investigator and research awards, including the 2017 Simo Prize (SEMNI), the 2015 Young Investigator award by the Seville’s Royal Academy of Sciences and the Best Doctoral Thesis Award by the US (2010). To carry out these investigations, she has managed and coordinated, as PI of the mechanobiology Lab of the US, a multidisciplinary team involved in the in silico modeling, small and large animal experimentation, in vitro modeling and mechanical characterization of biological tissues. The interdisciplinarity character of her team is evidenced by the PhD supervision of physicians as well as mechanical engineers, granted patents in collaboration with physicians and management and coordination of large national bioengineering research projects uninterruptedly since 2010. She has been visiting professor at the University College of London (2009), University of Colorado (2011), University of Liège (2018) and University of

Oxford (2024).

Email to membership.chair@esbiomech.org