Margarida Diogo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering of IST, lecturing among others the courses “Cell and Tissue Engineering” and “Stem Cell Bioengineering”. She is senior researcher at the Stem Cell Engineering Research Group of iBB, leading the Focus Area of Biology and Engineering of Pluripotent Stem Cells. Her research activities are focused on the development of advanced neural and cardiac tissue models from human pluripotent stem cells and their applications for disease modeling, drug screening and toxicology assays. Margarida finished her MSc in Biotechnology in 1999 and her PhD in Biotechnology in 2004, both at Instituto Superior Técnico.