Dr Stan Von Euw is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences (SBCS), College of Science and Engineering. He completed his education at Sorbonne Université in Paris, where he obtained a BSc in Chemistry in 2009, an MSc in Materials Chemistry in 2011, and a PhD in Materials Chemistry in 2014.

During his MSc studies, Stan undertook a six-month research internship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) programme, funded by the National Science Foundation. His PhD was funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and was carried out at the Collège de France within the Chemistry of Condensed Matter Laboratory (LCMCP). His doctoral research focused on bone biomineralization, from the structural characterisation of the mineral phase to its three-dimensional organisation. This work was recognised with the Nine Choucroun Prize from the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation in 2015.

Following his PhD, Stan joined Rutgers University, New Jersey, as a postdoctoral researcher, where his research centred on coral biomineralization within the Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology (EBME) programme. In 2018, he was awarded an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. He carried out this fellowship at the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin.

In September 2021, Stan joined the Mechanobiology and Medical Devices Research Group (MMDRG) at the University of Galway as a postdoctoral researcher and secured his current academic position the following year.

Dr Stan Von Euw has recently established the Bio-inspired Mineralization Laboratory (BIOML) within the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway. BIOML develops new approaches for fabricating biomimetic inorganic–organic hybrid materials, adopting an interdisciplinary framework with a strong focus on the interplay between biomineralization, crystal growth, tissue engineering, and analytical and materials chemistry.

Research activities within BIOML are organised around three complementary themes. Theme 1 aims to advance understanding of non-classical pathways to crystallization, with particular emphasis on the amorphous-to-crystal phase transformation of solid, metastable, amorphous inorganic nanoparticles. Theme 2 focuses on developing innovative mineralization strategies to engineer biomimetic inorganic–organic hybrid materials, particularly human bone-like materials with sizes, degrees of mineralization, and biomimetic traits not achieved thus far. Theme 3 seeks to open new perspectives in healthcare by evaluating the bone regeneration potential of these materials in preclinical studies.