Paul Dalton

Associate Professor, Knight Campus
Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professor in Transformational Science and Mathematics

Originally educated as a materials scientist, Paul Dalton has attained interdisciplinary experience in diverse aspects of advanced biomaterials and clinical device fabrication.

He received his PhD from Curtin University in Perth, Australia where he was part of a Lions Eye Institute team taking an artificial cornea from concept to the clinic. His first post-doc was at the University of Toronto, Canada, with Molly Shoichet developing hydrogels for nerve regeneration while his second was conducted at Aachen University, Germany, with Martin Möller, applying nanotechnology to life science applications.

Later, as an independent research fellow at the University of Southampton in England, Paul investigated neuroinflammatory profiles of hydrogel scaffolds implanted in the spinal cord. Between 2009 and 2011 he split his time between Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and Queensland University of Technology in Australia to develop a new high resolution 3D printing technology, called melt electrowriting (MEW). As the first Professor in Germany in Biofabrication, he established the first MEW printer in Europe and continued to pioneer the technique. Now at the Knight Campus at the University of Oregon, his experienced team will take MEW to another level of capability and control.

Paul has published over 100 peer-reviewed research articles in journals that include Advanced Materials, Progress in Polymer Science and Nature Materials.