Mani Diba PhD

About Mani Diba

Mani Diba is a tenured assistant professor and principal investigator at the Department of Dentistry-Regenerative Biomaterials, Radboud University Medical Center. His group (Diba Lab) designs dynamic biomaterials for tissue regeneration, biofabrication, and organ-on-chip models of human tissue.

He holds a PhD with highest distinction from Radboudumc and has held postdoctoral positions at Eindhoven University of Technology, Rice University, and Harvard University.

Full details of the group's research, team, and publications: www.dibalab.org

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2021-2022
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, 2019-2021
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2018-2019
• Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2018
• M.Sc. in Advanced Materials and Processes, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, 2012
• B.Sc. in Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2010

Personal prizes & awards

• NWO Vidi grant, 2025 (DYNAVIVO)
• Hypatia Tenure Track Grant, Radboudumc, 2022
• PhD cum laude, Radboudumc, 2018
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellowship, European Commission, 2020
• NWO Rubicon grant, 2019
• Best PhD Thesis Award, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, 2019
• Julia Polak European Doctorate Award, European Society for Biomaterials, 2018
• Niels Stensen Fellowship, 2018

Expertise

• Regenerative biomaterials
• Granular and particulate biomaterials
• Tissue engineering
• Dynamic hydrogels
• Biofabrication and 3D bioprinting
• Organ-on-chip and in vitro tissue models
• Bone tissue regeneration