Prof. Pasi Kallio’s research interests include microfluidics and organ-on-chip technologies, and their use in cell and tissue engineering. Currently, Prof. Kallio is the Vice Dean for Research and the Head of Micro- and Nanosystems Research Group (https://biomeditech.fi/research/micro-and-nanosystems-research-group) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology at Tampere University. Since 2008, he has hold a professorship of automation engineering in biomicrosystems. Prof. Kallio has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, given several invited and keynote talks in international conferences, has fifteen patent applications and has co-founded three spin-off companies. Currently, he is a PI in five large research projects including a Body-on-Chip Centre of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland in 2018-2025 and an Innovative Training Network FibreNet funded by MSCA of H2020 in 2017-2021