Gowsihan (Gowsh) Poologasundarampillai is a Birmingham Fellow in Biomaterials and Bioimaging at the Dental School. His research activity is focused on biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In specific, his research group is involved in the development of novel hybrid bioinks for 3D bioprinting, bioactive glass and hybrid scaffolds for hard and soft tissue regeneration and their characterisation using advanced techniques available at Harwell Campus.

Gowsh has over 12 years of research experience in the field of sol-gel chemistry with >30 publications and 2 patents. Gowsh has also disseminated his research findings at over 25 national and international conferences of which 6 were invited. Throughout his career, his contributions to his research field have been extremely innovative; he produced the first, bioactive, Class II hybrids for bone regeneration using natural polymers, the first electrospinning of cotton-wool-like fibrous materials from sol-gel solutions and the first 3D printed organic/inorganic hybrid scaffolds directly from sol-gel solutions.