Professor Rui L. Reis, PhD, DSc, Hon. Causa MD, Hon Causa PhD, FBSE, FTERM, member of NAE, FAIMBE, FEAMBES, is a Full Professor of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, Biomaterials and Stem Cells at University of Minho (UMinho), Portugal. He is the Founding Director of the 3B’s Research Group and the Dean/President of the I3Bs – Institute for Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, as well as the Director of the ICVS/3B´s Associate Laboratory, all based at UMinho. He is also the CEO of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. He has been (2015-2018) the Global President of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS).
He is a recognized World expert in the TERM and biomaterials fields, that has edited several books and has more than 1860 published works listed on ISI Web of Knowledge with an h index of 119 (1760 works and h=129 in Scopus and 2710 and h=156 in Google Scholar), being also an inventor of around 130 patents. He has more than 1250 publications with more than 10 citations each (i10). According to Google Scholar his work has been cited more than 110500 times. He is listed in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2022 and 2023 lists from Clarivate. He has been awarded many important international prizes and is/has been the PI of projects with a budget totalizing more than 140 MEuros of which around 65 MEuros are U. Minho funding.