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Georgia Papavasiliou is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Armour College of Engineering, with a joint appointment in Rush Medical College’s Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. She serves as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs. Her research designs biomimetic hydrogel scaffolds for vascularized tissue regeneration, develops nanoparticle drug-delivery systems, and models polymerization kinetics. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Tech (2003) and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the same institution (1996).
Her work has produced novel gradient hydrogel platforms enabling controlled vascular sprouting and nanocomposite emulsions for biofilm dispersion. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Biomacromolecules and Advanced Healthcare Materials. Awards include the IAspire Leadership Fellowship (2021-2023) and multiple teaching excellence recognitions.
She co-leads NSF-funded projects on phosphate-based therapeutics and hydrogel characterization. Her lab focuses on translating biomaterial designs to clinical applications in wound healing and tissue regeneration.
