Biographies of Authors and Editors
Wieland, Marco Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry
Dept. of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences
2199 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z3, Canada
E-mail: wieland@interchange.ubc.ca
Web-site: www.dentistry.ubc.ca
Marco Wieland, born in 1968, studied Materials Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich and earned his Ph.D. in the area of characterizing the chemical composition and topography of medical implant surfaces and their influence on osteoblastic cell-surface interactions. He developed a wavelength-dependent roughness evaluation method to describe surface topographies in various characteristic roughness ranges. Since August 1999 he is working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, where he is studying the effects of surface roughness on cell and tissue responses.
