Month: November 2018

Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini has been listed in the prestigious Highly Cited Researchers 2018 (https://hcr.clarivate.com/) list, published by Clarivate Analytics. The list contains the world’s most influential researchers across 21 scientific disciplines. The 2018 list includes 6000 researchers ...

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Department WW) has been elected Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT), based in the United Kingdom. Fellowship recognition is given to individual achievement and is awarded for recognized contributions to the science and ...

In November 2018, Laura Ramos Rivera and Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD students at the Institute of Biomaterials, visited Prof. Peter Pivonka, Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Spinal Disorders, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in the framework of the Australia-Germany Joint Research C...

On 21-23 November 2018 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Division of Functional Materials and Biomaterials, Polymer Institute, at West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT), Szczecin, Poland. The visit was hosted by Prof. Mirosława El Fray, Head of Division, Director of Polymer Institute and ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Scientific Workshop 2018 of the Rostock University Medicine (Universitätsmedizin Rostock), University of Rostock, Germany, on 16th November 2018. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Bioactive Materials and Biofabrication for Biomedical Appl...

In the week of 20th November we received the visit of Dr. Diego Bustos, senior researcher at CONICET Laboratory of Integration of Cellular Signals at the Institute for Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), Mendoza, Argentina. He also visited our cell bi...

In the week of 20th November we received the visit of Prof. Dr. Eng. Gunawarman, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Andalas University, Pedang, Indonesia (pictured with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini). We collaborate with the group of Prof. Gunawarman in the field of bioactive coating...

Visiting PhD students from Cinvestav Querétaro (Mexico), Jennifer Hermann Muñoz and July Andrea Rincón López (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), have finished their research stay in our Institute. Jennifer and Andrea worked on the cell biology characterisation of bioceramic composites, as part of our ...

In November 2018 we received the visit of Prof. Carlos Julio Cortes-Rodriguez, professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, National University of Colombia, Bogota, in the framework of a DAAD funded short-term visit. We have started research collaborations with the group o...

On 16th November 2018, Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented a poster about our Biofabrication activities entitled "Advances in Biomaterials for Biofabrication: 3D Printing with Bioinks" at the "Day of the Faculty of Engineering"("TAG der Technischen Fakultät") at University of Er...