**About the Editors**

#### **Rui A. Lima**

Rui A. Lima is an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minho (UMinho), and a researcher at the Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center (MEtRICs, UMinho) and Transport Phenomena Research Center (CEFT), FEUP, University of Porto. His main research mostly focuses on microfluidics, nanofluidics and blood flow in biomedical microdevices. Currently, he lectures for several master's degree courses in mechanical, biomedical and industrial engineering. In the past, he has lectured for several master's degree courses in biomedical technology such as cardiovascular biomechanics and micro/nanotechnologies, and biomedical applications at the Braganc¸a Polytechnic Institute (IPB). Currently, he also supervises several PhD and master's students in the field of mechanical and biomedical engineering.

#### **Susana Catarino**

Susana Oliveira Catarino received her PhD degree in biomedical engineering, from the University of Minho, Portugal, in 2014. She is currently an assistant researcher at the Center for Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS-UMinho) and in the LABBELS (Associate Laboratory on Biotechnology, Bioengineering and MicroElectromechanical Systems) at the same University. Starting in October 2016, she has also been a visiting assistant professor at the same institution, lecturing for the Deperment of Industrial Electronics, in the areas of modeling and simulation for microtechnologies, electronics, microsensors and microactuators. She has published 50 articles and book chapters, and 2 patents and has co-edited 1 book that was internationally distributed. She supervises several PhD and master theses, and several research fellows. She has also participated in 10 research projects, being the principal investigator for 2 of them. Her research interests include diagnosis and lab-on-a-chip devices, optical and acoustic sensors and actuators, and numerical studies of acoustic streaming and microfluidic devices.

#### **Gra¸ca Minas**

Grac¸a Maria Henriques Minas is an associate professor at and the director of the Department of Industrial Electronics as well as a researcher in the CMEMS-UMinho (Center for Microelectromechanical Systems) and in the LABBELS (Associate Laboratory on Biotechnology, Bioengineering and MicroElectromechanical Systems) at University of Minho, Portugal. Her main research mostly focuses on biomedical microdevices, specifically on the lab-on-a-chip integration of electronic circuits; optical filters; and solid-state integrated sensors, biosensors and actuators in those LOC devices. She also develops organ-on-a-chip systems that aim to mimic human response to various chemicals in vitro. She lectures for master's degree courses in biomedical and physics engineering and in micro/nanotechnology as well as for the doctoral program of biomedical engineering in the field of biosensors, microelectronics and microsystems fabrication. She also supervises several PhD and master's students in those fields.
