Currently I am a junior researcher at i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), where I develop my research focused on the design of supramolecular systems that recapitulate the spatial distribution of signalling molecules during tissue development, regeneration and repair. During my career, I have worked in six different institutions in five different countries, and always as part of a multidisciplinary team. This mobility has also exposed me to different scientific and working cultures and allowed me to create an international network of scientific collaborators. So far, my research work yielded 18 journal publications with 947 citations and an h-index of 14 (Google Scholar 25-02-2020). After been awarded a Marie Curie IOF fellowship, I moved to two renowned labs in self-assembly and supramolecular materials, Northwestern University (Sam Stupp, Chigago) and Eindhoven University of Technology (Bert Meijer). There, I built a strong expertise and international network in the field, as shown by my seminal findings on peptide self-assembly dynamics (Nat Commun 2016)[1] and self-healing hydrogels (Macromol 2017)[2]. Building on my own network, I co-edited a book on Self-Assembling Biomaterials (2018) (Woodhead, Elsevier), gathering 25 chapters written by renown labs around the world. Next, I moved to King’s College London (KCL) at the Centre for Craniofacial and Regenerative Biology, where I developed my own research ideas on designer hydrogels and used them as ECM surrogates to culture organoids presenting the hallmarks of tissue organization. This work is currently under revision (3rd round) in Nature Materials,[3] after performing all experiments requested by the reviewers in the previous rounds, which confirmed our most impactful findings. The pre-print is now available at bioRxiv. At KCL I have organised the 4th London Polymer Group Symposium https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-london-polymer-group-symposium-registration-46532843989# Since my PhD graduation, I have been able to secure my own funding awarded to original research proposals in competitive calls (FCT postdoc fellowship and Marie Curie IOF fellowship). Afterwards, I was simultaneously awarded a King’s Prize fellowship and a Marie Sklodowska Curie CAR fellowship. I was happily forced to choose between them, having declined the last one. These last applications were both based on designer hydrogels to control stem cell fate, showing that my current research projects and ideas have great potential to attract further funds. I have also coordinated a seed award (King’s Together, 20k£) of which I was leading PI, having assembled a team joining eight research labs across disciplines and a clinician. I am currently supervising one PhD (4-yr fellowship, 175k£) and co-supervising another. I have participated as invited evaluator for EU research grants in several occasions since 2012 (FP7 and H2020), I have been regularly peer reviewing research papers for the past ten years. I regularly attend international conferences and have given several invited talks. I am also member of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) and The Royal Chemical Society (RCS). ================= SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 1. da Silva RMP, et al. Nature Communications. 2016; 7:11561. 2. Lopez-Perez PM, da Silva RMP, et al. Macromolecules. 2017; 50(21):8698–8706. (shared 1st author) 3. Jowett GM, Norman MDA, Yu TTL, …, da Silva RMP, Neves JF, Gentleman E. “ILC1-derived TGFß1 drives intestinal remodelling.” Nat Mater (under revision). 2020 (preprint available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.20 8. Neves MI, Araújo M, Moroni L, da Silva RMP, Barrias CC. Molecules. 2020; 25(4):978 (shared senior author)