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Curriculum vitae
Monica Echeverry Rendon, the author of this dissertation, was born on 31 August 1983 in Medellin, Colombia. In 2001, she started her education in Bioengineering at the University of Antioquia. During her Bachelor education, she developed an interest in science and specifically in Biomaterials field. During her undergraduate program she started her first bases in science in the group PECET (Program For the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases). There she participated in a project about the evaluation of natural compounds against Leishmaniasis, under the supervi- sion of Prof. Sara Robledo. During her last year in the bioengineering program, she had the opportunity to do an internship in the Bioimplants Laboratory at the National University Entre Rios, Argentina. She obtained her degree as bioengineer in December 2007.
In 2009, Monica started her Master studies in Biology in the University of the Antioquia. Her project was called “Biological Evaluation of Ti c.p and Ti6Al4V Anodized to Improve the Osseointegration” which was developed under the supervision of Prof. Juan Jose Pavon, Sara Robledo and Felix Echeverria. During her Master education, Monica performed an internship in the Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the University Complutense of Madrid. Her master studies concluded in 2012 where Monica obtained a meritorious thesis.
During 2013 and 2014, Monica worked as research assistant, first in the School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana EEUU and then in Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign EE.UU in the project “Development and Fabrication of a Stent Prototype to Induce Closure of Post-Traumatic Blast-Induced Penetrating Brain Pseudo-Aneurysms” under the supervision of Prof. Jean Paul Allain.
In 2014, Monica started her PhD-research in a double degree program between the University of Antioquia and the University of Groningen. With this purpose she did the first two years in the University of Antioquia with em- phasis in Material Science in the “Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo de Materiales CIDEMAT” under the supervision of Prof. Felix Echeverria and the next two years in the University Medical Center Groningen, in the department of Medical Biology in the Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine Research Group (CAVAREM) under the supervision of Prof. Marco Harmsen. Her investigation was about the development of biodegradable magnesium- based supports for stem cell therapy of vascular disease. During her PhD Monica obtained two awards with her work, first during the event Leaders in Innovation Fellowships organized by the Royal Academy of Engineering in London (2017) where she had the prize as First place after she gave a Pitch about her project. Second, she got the Best PhD student Oral Presentation Award, during the Kolff’s days grated by the W.J. Kolff institute.
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