Vina Putra

Vina is a Scientia PhD Scholar in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, working on multidisciplinary approaches of mechanomics engineering to understand and modulate stem cells structure and function. She graduated from the University of Applied Science Technikum Wien, Austria and completed her M.S. thesis in biotextiles for tissue engineering when she first joined UNSW Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in 2017. She expanded her research skills in neuroblastoma molecular and gene dysregulation while taking up a research assistant role at the Children's Cancer Institute Australia. Her current research in Kilian’s laboratory involves materials chemistry, mechanics, physics, and imaging tools to recapitulate stem cells adaptation during tissue development and healing across time and length scales. Ultimately, she hopes to harness this information to target tissue genesis and to improve therapies and design of medical devices for regenerative medicine.
contact: v.putra@unsw.edu.au