Learn more Sarah is Vice Dean and Head of School of Engineering. The School’s student and staff community is vast and diverse with around 7,000 students, 580 academic and research staff and 250 professional services staff. The School teaches large home and international cohorts of students from around 150 different countries, across Aerospace, Chemical, Civil, Electronic, Electrical and Mechanical, Engineering, Computer Science and Project Management. In addition to this, it delivers technical masters programmes in areas from manufacturing and engineering design to renewable energy systems, communications and signal processing to the management of projects and it works with over 900 PhD research students who are at the cutting edge of their fields. Sarah was appointed Professor of Bioengineering at The University of Manchester in 2014 in the School of Materials after joining Manchester in 2010. She received a B.Eng. in Materials Science with Clinical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Clinical Engineering from The University of Liverpool in 1996 and 2000, respectively and then furthered her studies at GeorgiaTech, Atlanta for two years as a postdoctoral research fellow. She joined Keele University in 2002 where she continued her postdoctoral studies until obtaining a Lecturership and then a Senior Lecturer position in orthopaedic tissue engineering in 2008. Sarah was head of the Department of Materials 2019-2023, which is home to nearly 2,000 students. She has previously been an elected Senate member for The University of Manchester and is now a Senate member due to her Head of School role. Sarah was the UK Biomedical Materials champion for The Royce Institute of a £235million UK government investment for advanced materials 2017-21. In this activity, she has created an interaction of a 200 strong stakeholder working group of UK academics and industry. She has prepared and led community day and strategic working group meetings. In this role she has led the creation of UK landscape activity in the biomedical materials area and has liaised with many UK and international academics and industry. Sarah has been awarded over 60 grants, >£14million of grants as lead PI and >£26million as both PI and CI from over 20 different competitive sources ranging from government, charity and industry. She is President of the UK Tissue and Cell Engineering Society. She has over 100 publications with over 8800 citations, 200 published abstracts and has given over 100 invited keynotes in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. All these publications have a common theme of orthopaedic engineering with a particular focus on X-Ray evaluation of tissue engineering constructs and biomaterials and the response of orthopaedic cells to a variety of stimuli such as mechanical forces, electrical stimulus, statins and a variety of different novel materials to support their growth into the correct tissue type/shape. She has recently created a spin off company named Retendon Ltd to translate her tendon repair product portfolio. She has been a review panel member for the government funding such as the BBSRC, MRC and Innovate UK and has been an external evaluating panel member and UK expert advisor to the European Union as a member of The European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST) in the ‘Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences’ Domain. She is also a reviewer for ERC, EU H2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie Award Individual Fellowships and Integrated Training Networks, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Irish Research Council, Czech Science Foundation and Israel Science Foundation. She is the Speciality Chief Editor for Regenerative Technologies, a section of Frontiers in Medical Technology Journal and is an associate editor for ‘Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM)’.