Sakis Mantalaris is currently the Don Panoz Chair at the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at Trinity College Dublin as well as Principal Investigator at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research & Training. He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech & Emory. Prior he was Professor in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Rochester in the USA His expertise is in modelling of biological systems and bioprocesses with a focus on mammalian cell culture systems, stem cell bioprocessing, and tissue engineering. He has received several awards: the Junior Moulton Award for best paper by the IChemE (2004), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), an ERC Advanced Investigator Award (2013), and the Donald Medal by the IChemE for his contributions to biochemical engineering (2015).