Dean/President of I3Bs (Research Institute on Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics).

Founding Director of the 3B´s Research Group (www.3bs.uminho.pt) Director of the ICVS/3B´s Associate Laboratory (PT Government Associate Laboratory, more details on www.icvs.uminho.pt and www.3bs.uminho.pt) 
Full Professor of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells, Dept. of Polymer Engineering, School of Engineering, U. Minho.
CEO of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (www.expertissues.eu) 
President/Chairman and Chief Scientific officer of Stemmatters (www.stemmatters.com) 
Editor in Chief of the Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Wiley-Blackwell, (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1932-7005) 
Director of the PhD program on Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells of U. Minho (http://termsc.3bs.uminho.pt)

Graduation in Metallurgical Eng. (University of Porto), MSc in Materials Eng. (University of Porto, Porto, Portugal), PhD in Polymer Eng. and Sci.-Biomaterials (University of Minho, in co-operation with Brunel University, U.K.) DSc in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (University of Minho, Portugal) Honoris Causa PhD/MD by the University of Granada (Spain).

Researcher ID Reis, Rui L (A-8938-2008); Scopus Author ID 7103370557; ORCID 0000-0002-4295-6129;