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Matter
Advanced materials engineered at the microscale.
Vinicius
ROSA
Matter, technology and life by design.
Reimagining how we design materials, model biology and regenerate oral tissues.
An engineered porous scaffold reorganises into a lattice of computational nodes; the lattice unfurls into warm translucent living layers; and a wider view finally shows all three conditions as one continuous body.
The premise
Designing the materials that should exist.
We begin with the biological response and work backwards — designing the matter, models and experimental systems capable of producing it.
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Intelligence
Computation to understand, simulate and design biological outcomes.
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Life
Translating design into living systems that regenerate and endure.
An integrated method
Map, predict, prescribe, validate.
A single loop links what a material is made of to the biology it produces — and closes when the prediction is confirmed at the bench.
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Map
Find the few variables that truly govern the material — and stop testing the rest.
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Predict
Turn early signals into the long-term outcome, before the bench.
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Prescribe
Invert the model: name the property you want, and it returns the formulation that reaches it.
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Validate
Confirm the prediction in material and cell experiments — then feed the result back.
And then it travels: validated technologies become oral-health innovation.
Research programs
Two platforms, in depth.
AI-guided material design
Biomaterials & AI
Machine learning, genetic algorithms and material informatics that design dental materials with properties on demand.
Enter the AI Living Lab → Why pulp regeneration mattersMatter for Vitality
Why dental-pulp regeneration matters and what it takes to get it right — the materials, biology and evidence behind regenerating pulp-like tissue in experimental models.
Explore Matter for Vitality →IADR 2026
Recognised innovation
Innovation in Oral Care Award · AI-enabled biomimetic hydrogels for dental-materials biosafety testing
Top 2%
Scientific impact
World’s most-cited scientists · Stanford–Elsevier ranking, since 2021
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