Speaker: Paul Wieringa
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Galway
Date: Friday, 16th January 2026
Paul Wieringa is an Assistant Professor at the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, within the Department of Complex Tissue Regeneration. He holds a BSc in Integrated Engineering from the University of British Columbia, an MSc (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente (2009), and a co-PhD (cum laude) from the University of Twente and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy (2014), where he focused on 3D electrospun scaffolds for nerve regeneration.
Paul has spent the past decade developing advanced 3D biofabrication models to study tissue innervation and tissue function. He received the NWO VENI fellowship in 2017 and holds a patent on polymer templating technology supported by multiple grants for commercialisation. His current work focuses on in vitro models of overlooked tissues in regenerative medicine, including tissue innervation and models related to women’s health. In 2022, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to develop a 3D fallopian tube model to uncover its role in early human development.
The seminar is hosted by Abhay Pandit.
