Curriculum Vitae
Syeda Mahwish Bakht
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Syeda Mahwish Bakht
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Bakht, Syeda Mahwish
- Syeda M. Bakht
- Bakht. S.M
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- AA12-BBFE-42BB
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-9736-1811
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=A3VabAIAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- http://researchid.co/mahwishbakht
- Scopus Author Id
- 55537916400
Email addresses
- mahwish@ua.pt (Professional)
Addresses
- CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahwishbakht (Professional)
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9736-1811 (Professional)
- https://researchid.co/mahwishbakht (Professional)
- https://compass.web.ua.pt/mahwish-bakht/ (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Syeda-Mahwish-Bakht (Professional)
- www.linkedin.com/in/mahwishbakht (Professional)
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=A3VabAIAAAAJ (Scholar)
- https://x.com/Mahwish_Syed90 (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
- Medical and Health Sciences - Medical Biotechnology - Biomaterials
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Pharmacology and pharmacy
- Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Medicinal Chemistry
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Portuguese | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
| Urdu (Mother tongue) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2023/10/31
Concluded
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Engenharia de Tecidos, Medicina Regenerativa e Células Estaminais (Doctorate)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Innovative Approaches to the Use of Nanotools for Creating Tendon Tissue-mimetic Constructs
and Disease Models" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Very Good |
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2016
Concluded
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Master of Science in Pharmacy (Master)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
"Optimization of Continuous Spectrophotometric Assay for Monoamine Oxidase-B, Selective
Inhibition and Molecular Modeling Studies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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3.58/4 |
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2013
Concluded
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Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) (Bachelor)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - Abbottabad Campus, Pakistan
"None" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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3.15/4 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2017 - 2021 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal |
| 2013/09/01 - 2014/12/30 | Researcher (Research) | COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/01/01 - 2015/01/31 | Research Traniee | Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital Ingersoll Bowditch Medical Library, United States |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/03/01 - Current | m2M (micro2Macro) - A bioprinting platform for the rapid, reliable, controlled and
quantifiable patterning of cellular aggregates and microtissues into macroscale regenerative
grafts with programmable architectures
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2025 - Current | Hybrid living bioengineered hierarchical constructs with self-oxygenating capability
2022.04237.PTDC
Researcher
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2025/11/01 - 2029/10/31 | Bioengineering a Physiologically Mimetic 3D Muscle Fibrosis Model Using Ultrasound-Mediated
Cell Alignment in Placenta-Derived Biomaterials
2025.04429.BDANA
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2024/01/01 - 2025/07/31 | InterLynk-Human Platelet Lysates-based Scaffolds for Interfacial Multi-tissue Repair
Researcher
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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European Commission
Concluded
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| 2024/07 - 2024/12/31 | TETRISSUE - Bioinspired Tile-Matching To Create Ultrastructured Bone Microtissues
In A Close-To-Native Fashion
Principal investigator
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2017/02/01 - 2021/01/31 | Development and characterization of bioink for enhanced control over mechanical and
theological properties based on additive CNC for #D bioprinting
PD/BD/129403/2017
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/12/01 - Current | Sustainable 4D hydrogels functionalised with plant-based nanoparticles for bone regeneration
in cancer patients
Researcher
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| 2021/11/01 - 2026/10/31 | Full human-based multi-scale constructs with jammed regenerative pockets for bone
engineering
883370
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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European Commission
Ongoing
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| 2024/02/01 - 2025/12/31 | CICECO – Instituto de Materiais de Aveiro
LA/P/0006/2020
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro CICECO, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
|
| 2023/03/01 - 2023/12/31 | Wi-Pi - Plataforma wireless de atuadores abióticos para estudar a mecanobiologia dos
receptores PIEZO
2022.05526.PTDC
PhD Student Fellow
3B's Research Group, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Facultade de Física, Spain |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30 | Magnetic Tissue Engineering approaches for Tendon Regeneration
PTDC/CTM-CTM/29930/2017
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | ICVS/3B’s - Associate Laboratory, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute / Biomaterials,
Biodegradables and Biomimetics Research Group
UID/Multi/50026/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference abstract |
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| Conference paper |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Newsletter article |
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Intellectual property
| Patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2026/04/24 | Liquid-core microcapsules as autonomous mini bioreactors for next-generation biomimetic tissue models | TERMIS-EU 2026
TERMIS-EU (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)
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| 2025/09/25 | Invited Speaker @ SupraLife Hands-on Workshop:Building life from the bottom-up: Emerging frontiers in bioprinting | 3rd SUPRALIFE Thematic Hands-on Workshop
CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2025/09/10 | Beyond Scaffolds: Liquid-Core Capsules as Adaptive Microenvironments for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative medicine | 34th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials
ESB 2025 (Turin, Italy)
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| 2023 | Combining Magnetically Assisted and Matrix-Assisted 3D Bioprinting for Anisotropic Tissue Engineering. | EORS 2023 - 31st Annual Meeting of the European Orthopaedic Research Society
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2022 | Human 3D Tendon-on-a-Chip: A Microscale Physiomimetic Model to Interrogate | Final Achilles Conference
(Braga, Portugal)
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| 2022 | Human 3D Tendon-On-Chip Model to Interrogate the Multicellular Crosstalk in Tendinopathy. | TERMIS-EU 2022
( Krakow, Poland)
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| 2022 | Magnetic and Matrix-assisted 3D Bioprinting for Biomimetic Tendon Tissue Model. | ESB 2022 - 32nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials
( Bordeaux, France)
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| 2021/09/07 | 3D Bioprinting in Self-Assembled Nanoparticles to Fabricate Microphysiological Systems for Tissue/Organ-On-A Chip Applications | 31st Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB2021)
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021 | 3D Bioprinting in Self-Assembled Nanoparticles to Fabricate Microphysiological Systems | 31st Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB2021)
(Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/10/25 | Multifunctional Magnetic Nanocomposite Bioink based on Bioinspired Supramolecular Crosslinking Strategies | CHEM2NATURE
(Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2018 | Development of Self-healing Magnetic Bioink based on Catechol-modified Supramolecular Crosslinking Strategies | CHEM2NATURE
(Porto, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/11/01 - Current | Bioengineering a Physiologically Mimetic 3D Muscle Fibrosis Model Using Ultrasound-Mediated
Cell Alignment in Placenta-Derived Biomaterials
Supervisor of Maria Eduarda Rocha Luiz
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Biotechnology (Branch - Medical Biotechnology) (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024 - Current | Minimalist self-regulated and bioinspired cell encapsulation systems for bone regeneration
Co-supervisor of CATARINA TONINI PASSOS
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DOUTORAL EM BIOTECNOLOGIA (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024 - Current | Bioengineering of a bone-marrow-mimetic in liquefied capsules: a strategic combination
of cells and bioinstructive materials for bone regeneration applications.”
Co-supervisor of Mariana da Silva Carreira
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DOUTORAL EM BIOTECNOLOGIA (PhD)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2024 - 2025 | Wireless assembly of cell-laden liquid-core microcapsules using acoustic waves
Supervisor of Maria Eduarda Rocha Luiz
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Masters in Biotecnology (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - Current | Co-Chair of Symposium on "Mechanobiology in regenerative medicine" @ TERMIS-EU (2026/04/23 - 2026/04/23)
Symposium (Co-organiser)
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| 2025/09/29 - 2025/10/03 | Event Coordinator for SupraLife Final International Conference 2025 (2025/09/29 - 2025/10/03)
Conference (Co-organiser)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2025/07/21 - 2025/07/21 | Event Coordinator for "Out of the box" COMPASS Research Group (2025/07/21 - 2025/07/21)
Other (Co-organiser)
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
| 2023/09/27 - 2023/09/29 | Organizer and Co-Chair of the Symposium - Mechanobiology EORS-
31st Annual Meeting of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (2023)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2022/05/25 - 2022/05/27 | Final Achilles Conference - Tendon Regeneration: a throwback to the lessons learned
and prospects to the future (2022)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2021/10/25 - 2021/10/27 | Third Achilles Conference - Gene & Cell Therapy and clinical applications (2021)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2019/11/04 - 2019/11/05 | Second Achilles Conference - Tendon Biophysical Environment (2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2019/07/08 - 2019/07/10 | First Achilles Conference - Molecular and biological mechanisms of tendon homeostasis
and repair (2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2018 - 2018 | Guimarães City Science Exposition Open Store (2018 - 2018)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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| 2014/03/02 - 2014/03/13 | Event Coordinator for visiting research institutions, startups and pharmaceutical
industries in Gottingen, Berlin, Bonn and Saarland to find common grounds to work
on and have some joint ventures in research. (2014/03/02 - 2014/03/13)
Meeting (Co-organiser)
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/12/16 | Wireless assembly of cell-laden liquid-core microcapsules using acoustic waves
Supervisor
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Maria Eduarda Rocha Luiz (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Current | Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) | Member |
| 2021 - Current | European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) | Member |
| 2017 - 2020 | Founding member PhDynamics Initiative | Founder member |
| 2015 - 2018 | ISPOR | Member |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/03/09 - 2025/03/14 | Event Coordinator for the SupraLife 3rd School
Coordinator
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Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/07 - 2025/11 | European Commission External Expert evaluator for MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (HE-MSCA-PF-2025)
Evaluator
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European Research Executive Agency |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/09/01 - Current | Development of a dhAM-based patch encapsulating US-responsive droplets | Sofia Sirolli |
| 2024 - Current | Exploring the synergistic effect of topographical and biochemical modification of microparticles as injectable platforms for bone tissue engineering | Diana Sofia Santiago Jesus |
| 2020/10/01 - 2022/07 | 3D bioprinting of a Tendon-on-chip model embeeded in ECM mimetic fibrillar supports | Rosa da Conceição Freitas Monteiro |
| 2021/04 - 2021/07 | 3D bioprinting strategies of complex tissue with mineralized to non-mineralized regions | Céline Codjiová |
| 2019/06/11 - 2019/08/14 | Processing of polymer hydrogels as biomaterials for tendon regeneration | Amandine Rodrigues |
| 2018 - 2019 | Optimization of Cellulose Nanocrystal hydrogel support baths for high resolution 3D Bioprinting | Milan Sixt |
| 2018 - 2018 | Examining Hydrogel Scaffold 3D Printing Parameters for Tendon TE | Tram Le |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - Current | Reviewer for Advanced Healthcare Materials | |
| 2023 - Current | Reviewer for Journal of Zhejiang University |
Distinctions
Award
| 2025 | ibidi Paper Award2025: Recognizing Excellence in Cell Migration Research
ibidi GmbH, Germany
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| 2021 | Best Photo ESB 2021
31st Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials, Portugal
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| 2018 | Best Oral Presentation
Chem2Nature Final Conference, Portugal
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| 2017 | FCT PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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