**About the Editor**

### **Luis Garc´ıa-Fern´andez**

Dr. Luis Garc´ıa Fernandez obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering at the ´ University of Castilla la Mancha in 2004. At the beginning of 2005, he obtained an FPI grant to develop his doctoral thesis in the Biomaterials group of the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP, CSIC). He obtained his European Ph.D. degree with the thesis "Synthesis and development of new antiangiogenic polymers". The thesis was qualified "cum laude"and awarded with the European Society of Biomaterials Doctoral Award by the European Society of Biomaterials (ESB). During his PhD, he worked at several well-recognized European Research Centers in Italy and Germany and participated in different projects in the field of polymers for drug delivery systems and tissue regeneration.

After his Ph.D., he spent several years at Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz (Germany) where he developed different research lines and collaborations in the field of polymers for biomaterials and their interaction with the cell environment.

In the year 2014, he returned to the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology, developing different innovative research lines based on tissue regeneration and new treatments with hydrogels based on natural polymers. During this period, he worked at the Center of Biological Research "Margarita Salas"(CIB-CSIC) to conduct bactericidal studies on different polymer surfaces. In the year 2018, he moved to the Centro de Investigaciones Biomedicas en Red (CIBER-BBN) where he ´ continues with his research on tissue regeneration and the development of new technologies for biomedical applications.
