Daniela has a background in biology, graduating with a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, before she joined the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London as Reader in Bioengineering and Cancer. Daniela returned to Australia to Monash University in 2020 with a multi-departmental appointment; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She holds a joint appointment at the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences to enable her research at the interface of tissue engineering, biomaterials and cell biology. Daniela leads the 3D Cancer Models Team, is an ERC Consolidator Awardee and currently serves as Director of Graduate Research. Her research focuses on the role of the extracellular and cellular microenvironment in modulating cancer progression and therapy response by applying tissue-engineered technologies.
