Month: November 2019

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Scientific Symposium, organised to mark the 10 year anniversary of the Network of Argentinian Scientists in Germany (Red de Cientificos Argentinos en Alemania, RCAA),  and the Annual General Meeting of the RCAA, which were held on 21-22 November 2019 at the Emba...

At the General Assembly of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in Germany (RCAA) held at the Embassy of the Argentine Republic  in Berlin on 22.11.2019, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials), was reelected for another 2 years as RCAA Scientific Coordinator. The RCAA has more t...

The second Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass) took place on November 18 – November 20, 2019, at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, with participation of representatives of the European Commission and partners institutions, including externa...

We are happy to report that Svenja Heise, who completed her doctoral thesis under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials in 2018 was awarded the Doctoral Thesis Prize of the Alumni Asociation of the Faculty of Engineering Erlangen (" Freundeskreis im Alumni Technisc...

On 12-16 November 2019 we received the visit of Dr. Magdalena M. Stevanovic, Principal Research Fellow at Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Dr. Stevanovic presented the lecture "Polyester micro- and nanosized systems for controlled drug de...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Colloquium held on 14th November 2019 to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Chair of Materials Science (CMS), Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Prof. Boccaccini followed an invitation of the Head ...

Ms Elisa Zanchi, PhD student at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, has completed her stay at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Elisa was recipient of a fellowship of the EUROPEAN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE ON KNOWLEDGE-B...

We were honoured to receive the visit of Prof. Rajendra K. Bordia, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, USA. On 13th November Prof. Bordia visited our laboratories and we discussed areas for research collaborations in the field of fabrication and characterisation of b...

On 13th November 2019 we received the visit of a delegation of materials science and engineering students from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. The visit was sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the program at FAU was coordinated by Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head,...

The latest retreat of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Centre (CRC /SBF 1270) – Electrically Active Implants (ELAINE) took place on 6-7 November 2019 in Hasenwinkel, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting and presented the latest results of the project “B01 – Elec...