Short biography
Dr. Aparicio is Group Leader of the Bioinspired Oral Biomaterials and Interfaces (BOBI) Lab and ICREA Research Professor at the Dpt. of Materials Science and Engineering of the UPC-Technical University of Catalonia since September 2024. Dr. Aparicio is materials engineer by training. He started his academic career at UPC, but moved to University of Minnesota (UMN) where he spent 12+ years in the Dpt. of Restorative Sciences and was Deputy Director of the Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics. He returned to Barcelona as FBA fellow at UIC Barcelona–Universitat International de Catalunya, where he was Vice-rector for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer and director of the Study and Control of Oral Infections Research Group. He is also associated researcher at IBEC-Institute for BioEngineering of Catalonia and elected fellow of AIMBE-American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
