Pedro J. Díaz Payno

Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Materials

Dr. Pedro J. Díaz Payno is currently working at IMDEA Materials Institute (Madrid) as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and as assistant professor at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. Pedro leads the newly constituted Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Materials group (TEBM) at IMDEA Materials. Originally from Madrid, Pedro got his BSc in Biotechnology from Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone (Ireland) and Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain) in 2012 and 2013, respectively. He then joined Prof. Daniel Kelly lab where he was awarded an Irish Research Council PhD Fellowship to do his PhD. His PhD focused on “The development of biomimetic scaffolds for osteochondral tissue engineering” and defended in 2019. After his PhD, he moved to the Netherlands to work with Prof. Gerjo Van Osch (ErasmusMC) and Prof. Amir A Zadpoor (TUDelft) on the development of advanced 4D Bioprinting technology, part of the Medical Delta project REGMED4D. From 2020-2023, he was elected Secretary of the Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS) of the European Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, Inc. (TERMIS). Then, in 2022, he moved back to Spain and worked as a Scientific Advisor in ROVI Pharmaceutical Company, S.A, before joining IMDEA Materials Institute to work on the development of biodegradable metals for tissue restoration, as part of the BIOMET4D project. He was organizer of WAB 2024, the first Workshop on Additive Biofabrication in Spain. In addition, he is founder and president of the Spanish society for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (SEMIT).

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Research Interests
  • Development of Extracellular matrix derived biomaterials and focusing on the tissue-specificity of the target tissue to repair.
  • Advanced design of structural reinforcements for tissue engineering applications, based on the use of simulations and computational modelling techniques.
  • (Bio)Fabrication of biomimetic microarchitectures using advanced freeze-casting techniques, 3D (bio)printing for biomedical applications, including disease modelling.
  • 2025-ongoing: Junior PI of the TEBM group (Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Materials) at IMDEA Materials Institute
  • 2024-ongoing: Assistant Professor at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (Spain)
  • 2023-2025: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at IMDEA Materials Institute (Spain)
  • 2023: Postdoc Research Associate at IMDEA Materials Institute (Spain)
  • 2022: Medical advisor Trainee at Pharmaceutical Laboratories ROVI, S.A. (Spain)
  • 2019-2022: Postdoctoral researcher in Medical Delta Collaboration at Erasmus Medical Centre and Technological University of Delft (Netherlands)
  • 2015-2019: PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  • 2015: MSc by Research at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  • 2013-2015: Research assistant at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  • 2024: Ramón y Cajal Fellowship
  • 2023: Acta Award 2022
  • 2023: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2015: Irish Research Council PhD Fellowship
  • 2014: Patent US20200188556A1.
  • 2025-ongoing: Scientific Committee of WAB2026
  • 2024-ongoing: Organizer of SEMIT 2025 Inaugural Congress
  • 2024-ongoing: Founder and president of SEMIT, the Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering Spanish Society.
  • 2024: Organizer of WAB 2024 Workshop, the first Workshop on Additive Biofabrication in Spain, hosted at IMDEA Materials.
  • 2020 and 2021: Organizer of 2020 and 2021 TERMIS World Webinars.
  • 2020-2023: Secretary of the Student and Young Investigator Section (SYIS) of TERMIS EU.