Biography

Sandra Hofmann obtained her MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2002. After a scientific visit to Prof. David Kaplan’s lab at Tufts University in Boston, she completed her PhD (with distinction) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich in 2007, working on 'silk fibroin as a biomaterial for drug delivery and tissue engineering'. Subsequently, she moved to the group of Prof. Ralph Müller at the ETH's Institute for Biomechanics to focus her studies on imaging methods and bioreactor design. In 2010 Hofmann became group leader of the skeletal tissue engineering group as a senior research associate. She became an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2013 and obtained tenure in 2016. Currently, she is an associate professor in bone bioengineering at the orthopaedic biomechanics group and a core member of the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) at the TU/e. Among others, Sandra Hofmann has obtained an ERC starting grant (2013), a Marie Curie Career integration grant (2013), a Women in Science Grant (2014). In 2018, she was awarded an NWO Vidi grant and an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in 2020.