David Kilian completed his PhD in the field of Biomedical Engineering under the guidance of Dr. Anja Lode and Prof. Michael Gelinsky at the Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research at TU Dresden's Faculty of Medicine, Dresden, Germany. He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials at the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Stanford University, USA. David does research in Tissue Engineering and 3D-Bioprinting.