Year: 2018

Nicoletta Toniolo, die ihre Doktorarbeit unter der akademischen Betreuung von Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini durchführte, verteidigte ihre Arbeit erfolgreich am 27. Juli 2018. Ihre Arbeit mit dem Titel: “Novel geopolymers incorporating silicate waste”, wurde im Rahmen des Horizon 2020 ETN EU Projekts "Ad...

On occasion of the 15th International Conference on the Physics of Non-Crystalline Solids and 14th Conference European Society of Glass, held in July 2018 in Saint Malo, France, the highly cited papers published in the J. of Non-Crystalline Solids were announced. In this category our paper entit...

On 26-27 July 2018 we received the visits of Prof. Cristina Leonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, and of Prof. Enrico Bernardo, University of Padova, Italy. We have collaborated with Prof. Leonelli for more than 15 years, in the field of glass-ceramics and composites (for exampl...

On 19th July 2018, Prof. Boccaccini was a guest speaker at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Medical School, in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre Transregio 79 (SFB/TRR 79): "Materials for tissue regeneration within systemically altered bone“, hosted by Prof. Christian Heiss, Direct...

The Ferrofluid Verein Deutschland e.V. presented the PhD Thesis Award 2018 to Dr. Harald Unterweger for his PhD thesis (Dr.-Ing.) completed in 2017 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Biomaterials, in cooperation with the Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON) of t...

The end of the summer term 2018 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials which took place on 18th July 2018. In his speech Prof. Boccaccini remarked the highly international character of our Institute, which is maintained over the years: people from seventeen natio...

On 17-18 July 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. We plan research collaborations with the group of Prof. Cortes-Rodriguez in the field of 3D printing com...

On 16th July 2018, Dr. Dana Rohanova, Assistant Professor, University of Chemistry and Technology, VSCHT, Department of Glass and Ceramics, Prague, Czech Republic, visited the Institute of Biomaterials and presented the invited seminar: "In vitro testing (with SBF) of inorganic biomaterials". Dr. Ro...

The Junior EUROMAT 2018 Conference took place in Budapest, Hungary on 8-12 July, 2018. Over 250 young materials researchers from 32 countries attended the conference, which is one of the main events of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini was one of the plenary s...

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held in Budapest, Hungary, on 12th July 2018, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) was elected unanimously to serve a second period as member of the FEMS Executive Committee representing the...