Associate Professor Jos Malda is Head of Research at the Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Center Utrecht and the Department of Equine Sciences, University of Utrecht. He also leads the Utrecht Biofabrication Facility. He is a long-standing Board member of the International Cartilage Repair Society and President of the International Society for Biofabrication. He also is a member of the UMC Utrecht Internationalisation Committee.
He received his MSc degree in Bioprocess Engineering from Wageningen University in 1999 and completed his PhD on Cartilage Tissue Engineering in 2003 (University of Twente). He subsequently accepted a research fellowship at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia), where he still holds an adjunct position. In 2007, Dr. Malda was awarded a NWO VENI fellowship that allowed him to establish his research group in Utrecht, which focuses on biofabrication and biomaterials design, in particular for the regeneration of (osteo)chondral defects. He has published over 80 articles in peer reviewed international journals. He has attracted over 4,5 million Euro in research funding and acts as coordinator of PrintCart and BIOFAB, and as steering committee member of SkelGen and HydroZONES. Also, he was recently awarded an ERC Consolidator grant.