Year: 2019

Prof. Boccaccini visited Imperial College London on 16-17 December 2019. Prof. Boccaccini is a visiting professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College since 2009, since he moved from Imperial to take the position of Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremb...

We congratulate Diana Ayala Valderrama who completed her PhD studies at Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, Departament Boyacá, Colombia, under supervision of Prof. Jairo Alberto Gomez Cuaspud. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the co-supervisor of the thesis, entitled: "Design of glass...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the 21st Annual White Rose Work in Progress Meeting, held at the University of York on 16 December 2019. The Meeting was hosted by Prof. Jennifer Southgate (Biology) and Dr. Chris Spicer (Chemistry), University of York, and included presentations of...

The final meeting and party of the Institute of Biomaterials was held on 10th December 2019 with the presence of staff, students and visitors. Prof. Boccaccini summarized in his presentation the main achievements and activities of the Institute in 2019 highlighting the high success in terms of acqui...

In the framework of our DAAD funded IKYDA project "Biodegradable osteoinductive scaffolds based on new functionalised polyesters, calcium silicate bioceramics and mesoporous nanocarriers, for bone tissue engineering”, in collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) , Greece, we rec...

The meeting of the Programme Committee of the CERAMICS 2020  conference took place in Offenbach on 11th December 2019. CERAMICS 2020, the 95th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) will be held in Jülich, Germany, on 14-18 March 2020, chaired by Prof. Olivier Guillon (Jülich Research Ce...

On occasion of the International Symposium to celebrate the 10 years of our Institute, held on 29.11.2019, we received numerous alumni and collaborators from all over the world. We were happy to welcome back in our Institute Dr. Maizlinda Izwana Idris, Associate Professor,  and Dr. Hasan Zuhudi Abdu...

On occasion of the International Symposium to celebrate the 10 years of our Institute, held on 29.11.2019, we received numerous alumni and collaborators from all over the world. We were happy to welcome back in our Institute Dr. Nooeaid Patcharakamon (Look-Om), currently Assistant Professor at the F...

On 6th December 2019 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the progress meeting of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, held at Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS), ...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the 100 year anniversary celebration event of the German Materials Society (DGM), held in Berlin on 27th November 2019. Prof. Boccaccini (*) said: "I have been member of DGM for more than 20 years, since the time I was a PhD student at RWTH Aachen, and the society has been ...