**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Chiara Attanasio**, veterinarian by background, currently serves as an assistant professor at the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she is mainly active in animal tissue characterization and preclinical model development. She leads a research group—focused on the design and validation of tissue-engineered constructs, as an affiliated researcher at the Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care—Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (CABHC-IIT). She is also an adjunct professor of Animal Anatomy and Histology at the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro. During the first part of her career, at the Center of Biotechnologies of Cardarelli Hospital in Naples, she was involved in studies aiming to control ischemia/reperfusion injury in liver, kidney and islet cell transplantation, and to improve the performance of AMC-bioartificial livers. During this period of time, she spent nearly one year at Harvard Medical School Transplant Center, Boston, MA, USA, where she explored novel mechanisms to maintain islet cell function and improve transplantation outcome. In 2013, at CABHC-IIT, she started to integrate this background into the field of bio-logic materials, by designing and validating bioengineered constructs and smart interfaces. From 2016 onward she also drives the Intravital Microscopy Lab of the Interdepartmental Center for Research in Biomaterials of University Federico II.
