I am Chemical Engineer and a Polymer and Material Scientist with specific training in cardiovascular and bioengineering research. I also have vast experience in the biophysical and biomechanical analysis of tissues and living cells using atomic force microscopy (AFM). In addition to my expertise in tissue and cell biomechanics, I have specific experience in translational research using biomaterials, nanotechnology and cell biology for cardiac tissue engineering. As a result, and together with my collaborators, we have engineered biomaterials for cardiovascular tissue engineering and medical devices for which we have submitted four patent applications, three of them already granted. My current and future research goals are committed to focus on sex as a biological variable to dissect mechanobiological mechanisms governing sex-related differences in heart failure. I am particularly interested to study the effect of mechanical stresses on sex-specific cardiac cells using engineered mechanical devices designed in my lab (provisional patent granted) and its application to further engineer precise sex-specific therapeutics that target fibrosis.