dr.ir. V. Trikalitis (Vasileios)

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v.trikalitis@utwente.nl
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Material scientist with expertise on Tissue Engineering, granular materials and 3D printing. Also did the journey from idea to product in the market with dissolvable Cell carriers in IamFluidics B.V. as a product developer specialist for 7 years.

Previous labs:
PhD and researcher at Vascularization Lab with Prof. J.Rouwkema

Researcher at Advanced Manufacturing, Sustainable products & Energy systems (AMSPES)-Fraunhoffer working with Prof. I.Gibson andĀ  Prof. C.G.Goulas.

Currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on how to fuse muscles with robots (ROBOREACTOR: Robotic bioreactors for the longitudinal control of restorative remodelling in the human skeletal muscle) at Massimo Sartori's Neuromechanical Modelling & Engineering Lab.

Read more here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=57vkP00AAAAJ&hl=en

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Hydrogel

  • Chemistry

    • Growth Factor
    • Aptamer
    • Suspension
    • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
    • Structure

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    • Vascularization
    • Flow

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Publications

2025

Magnetic Nozzleā€Free Embedded 3D (MagNoFE3D) Printing (2025)Advanced Materials Technologies, 10(5). Article 2401097. Piñan Basualdo, F. N., Trikalitis, V. D., Visconti, S., Ficuciello, F., Goulas, C., Rouwkema, J. & Misra, S.https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202401097Bioprinting of Aptamer-Based Programmable Bioinks to Modulate Multiscale Microvascular Morphogenesis in 4D (2025)Advanced healthcare materials, 14(1). Article 2402302. Rana, D., Rangel, V. R., Padmanaban, P., Trikalitis, V. D., Kandar, A., Kim, H.-W. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202402302

2024

Tissue Bioprinting: A granular approach (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Trikalitis, V. D.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036562317Embedded Printing of Hydrogels and Watery Suspensions of Cells in Patterned Granular Baths (2024)Tissue engineering. Part C: Methods, 30(5), 206-216. Trikalitis, V. D., Paizal, J. P., Rangel, V., Stein, F. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tec.2024.0015

2023

Embedded 3D printing of dilute particle suspensions into dense complex tissue fibers using shear thinning xanthan baths (2023)Biofabrication, 15(1). Article 015014. Trikalitis, V. D., Kroese, N. J. J., Kaya, M., Cofino Fabres, C., ten Den, S. A., S.M. Khalil, I., Misra, S., Koopman, B. F. J. M., Passier, R., Schwach, V. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/aca124

2022

3D printed Magnetically Deformable Hydrogels in a Granular Medium for Tissue Engineering applications (2022)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 31st NBTE Annual Meeting 2022. El Akkawi, M., Trikalitis, V. D., Gibson, I., Goulas, C. & Rouwkema, J.

2021

Motile Bioactive Embedding Baths based on Biomaterial Hydrogel Particles (2021)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 6th world congress of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society, TERMIS 2021. Trikalitis, V. D., Stein, F., Kandar, A. K., Rangel, V., Perea Paizal, J., Stimac, M. & Rouwkema, J.Assessment of flow within developing chicken vasculature and biofabricated vascularized tissues using multimodal imaging techniques (2021)Scientific reports, 11, 1-14. Article 18251. Padmanaban, P., Chizari, A., Knop, T., Zhang, J., Trikalitis, V. D., Koopman, B., Steenbergen, W. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97008-wDataset for assessment of flow within developing chicken vasculature and biofabricated vascularized tissues using multimodal imaging techniques (2021)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. figshare. Padmanaban, P., Chizari, A., Knop, T., Zhang, J., Trikalitis, V. D., Koopman, B., Steenbergen, W. & Rouwkema, J.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16402662

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