Bioactive Materials welcomes new Associate Editor: Rui L. Reis
Published 15 October, 2024
We would like to welcome our new Associate Editor: Rui L. Reis.
Rui L. Reis
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.
Prof.Rui L. Reis 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) and was the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2007-2021), was an Associate Editor of PNAS-NEXUS (2022-2024), and his an Associated Editor of Bioactive Materials (2024-till now), being also in the Editorial Board of several other relevant journals. 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). Based on those, he co-founded several companies that raised important private investments. 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 (responsible for the ISI Web of Science). This annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index.
Prof.Rui L. Reis has been awarded many important international prizes, including among several others different innovation awards, the Jean Leray, George Winter and Klaas de Groot Awards (ESB), the Clemson Award for contributions to the literature Award (SFB), the TERMIS-EU contributions to the literature Award and the TERMIS-EU Career Achievement Award, the UNESCO- International Life Sciences Award and the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (USA), Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), Fellow of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (FTERM). He was the chair of the FTERM College of Fellows (2019-2021) and is presently (since 2020) the Chair of the Steering Committee of the International College of Fellows of FBSE. He was awarded 2 honouris causa degrees. He is/has been the PI of projects with a budget totalizing more than 140 MEuros of which around 65 MEuros are U. Minho funding.
