Professor Nicola Tirelli (PhD, FRSC) - personal details

Since August 2010, Professor Nicola Tirelli has held  a joint appointment as a Professor of Polymers and Biomaterials in the School of Biomedicine (MHS) and the School of Materials (EPS). He joined The University of Manchester in December 2004 as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. He was promoted  to Chair of Polymers and Biomaterials in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006. Previously, he was Oberassistent, a position largely analogous to that of a Lecturer, at the ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, Institute of Biomedical Engineering headed at the time by Jeff Hubbell (12/98-12/02).

 Awards

2005: EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow

2004: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research). 

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Member of the American Chemical Society

1996 – PhD in Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa (Italy)

1992 – Italian “Laurea” (cum laude) – Master in Chemistry, University of Pisa (Italy)

Editor-in-chief of Reactive and Functional Polymers

Member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Wiley-VCH Macromolecular journals, specifically dealing with Macromolecular Bioscience

Clinical Applications in Biomaterials (3rd year BSc in Biomedical Materials, 4th year MEng in Biomedical Materials)

Anatomy & Physiology (1st year BSc and MEng in Biomedical Materials)

DTC in Nanotechnology

MRes in Tissue Regeneration