Marcela García Jiménez is a Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She holds a veterinarian degree (magna cum laude) from Universidad Nacional (UNA) in Costa Rica. After four years of experience working as a veterinarian in both a hospital and a diagnostic laboratory, she pursued a master's degree in Regenerative Medicine and Technology at Utrecht University. During her master's studies, she utilized advanced techniques such as 3D printing, mechanical testing, cell culture, micro-CT imaging, and confocal microscopy to fabricate and characterize osteochondral implants and growth plate templates for bone regeneration.

Marcela is now working under the supervision of Assistant professor Miguel Dias Castilho in the Biomaterials Design and Processing group, where she is developing a functional 3D bioprinted model using leukemia bone marrow organoids for fundamental research and testing of new therapies for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).