The European Society of Biomechanics

Gwendolen Reilly

Publication Committee

Department of Engineering Materials
University of Sheffield

Gwendolen Reilly has a BSc in Biology and Geology from the University of Manchester and a DPhil (PhD) in Biology from the University of York. She has been a member of the ESB since beginning her PhD studies in bone biomechanics and has previously received two awards from the ESB. She has conducted post-doctoral research at the ETH in Switzerland and three US Universities; Penn State, U Pennsylvania and U of Illinois at Chicago. These studies focused on bone cell mechanotransduction, bone and cartilage differentiation and biomaterials. She returned to Europe for a faculty position as a Lecturer in Tissue Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She currently specialises in mechanical stimulation of bone and cartilage in 3D bioreactor culture and collaborates with colleagues on soft tissue biomechanics and biomaterials for tissue engineering. She has many transatlantic and European collaborations including with Jagiellonian University, Krakow, and the University of Pisa and is a member of EXPERTISSUES, an EU funded network of excellence for bone and cartilage tissue engineering She has published 21 peer reviewed publications in cell biology, biomechanics, bone and tissue engineering journals.