Prof. Meital Zilberman holds an appointment of Associate Professor with tenure at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Tel Aviv University.

She received her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Cum Laude) and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering (polymers) from the Technion – Israel

Institute of Technology. Her Ph.D. thesis was focused on electrically conductive polymer blends. For that work, she was awarded with the prestigious Israel

Ministry of Science's Eshkol Scholarship, the SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering) Europe award, the Shenkar award,

as well as Guthwirth scholarship and Technion's postdoc scholarship for an outstanding woman scientist.

Dr. Zilberman then worked for two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical

Center at Dallas (Dallas, Texas, USA). Her work research there focused on bioresorbable stents for coronary, tracheal and urethral applications.

In April 2002, Dr. Zilberman joined the Senior Academic Staff of Tel-Aviv University and established a new Laboratory, research and teaching activities in the

fields of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. Current lab activities are related to: (1) Bioresorbable polymeric biomaterials; (2) Active implants;

(3) process-> structure -> property effects in bio-polymers; (4) Controlled drug and protein release; and (5) Scaffolds for tissue engineering. These research

activities has been supported mainly by the Israel Ministry of Health, Israel Science foundation (ISF) and RAMOT (Horowitz) foundation. At TAU she has also

been the Graduate Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Department (2007-2009).

Prof. Zilberman has published more than 60 peer reviewed articles in the top Biomaterials journals, contributed more than 120 presentations (including invited

talks) to both Israeli and International conferences and serves on the editorial board of "Advanced Biomaterials" journal, which belongs to the prestigious

"Advanced Materials" publication family of Wiley. Recently, she has been invited by Springer to edit a volume of Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue

Engineering and Biomaterials on Biomaterials and Nanostructures for Active Implants. In 2007 she has won the prestigious JULUDAN prize, given by the

Technion to an outstanding researcher. This prize recognizes outstanding scientific research achievements that shows promise of having valuable technological

applications and are channeled to enhance man's welfare and prolong human life.