Liesbet Geris

Liesbet Geris is Collen-Francqui Research Professor in Biomechanics and Computational Tissue Engineering at the university of Liège and KU Leuven in Belgium. Liesbet is scientific coordinator of the Prometheus platform for Skeletal Tissue Engineering, has edited several books on computational modeling and tissue engineering, has received 2 prestigious ERC grants. She is the current executive director of the Virtual Physiological Human Institute and in that capacity she advocates the use of in silico modeling in healthcare through liaising with the clinical community, the European Commission and Parliament, regulatory agencies and various other stakeholders.