Month: September 2020

Our Institute was well represented at the Materials Science and Engineering Congress 2020 (MSE 2020),  which took place completely in digital form on 22-25 September 2020. MSE 2020 is the biannual conference of the German Material Society (DGM).  Professor Boccaccini was a member of the _Organizing ...

On 23th September we received the visit of Dr.med.dent. Zeqian Xu, post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Dr. Frank Rupp's Group, Section Medical Materials Science and Technology, University Hospital,  Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Dr Xu's research interest are: biosensors for detecting protein abs...

The special issue of /Advanced Engineering Materials/ (vol. 22, Sept. 2020) containing a collection of papers covering research activities at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg (FAU) has been just published. The special issue was co-edited by ...

On 21st September 2020 Prof. Boccaccini attended the remote meeting of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in Germany (RCAA) with authorities of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation - MinCyT of Argentina,  state secretary Dr. Diego Hurtado, and Ms Karina Pombo, national director for ...

The latest progress meeting of the project “Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Understanding Complex Tissue Biomechanics”  funded by the “Emerging Fields Initiative, EFI”  of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg with support of the Staedtler Stiftung was held remotely on 18th September 2020. The project...

The latest progress meeting our international project: “Development of electrophoretic co-deposition of bioactive and antibacterial ceramics with biodegradable polymers to produce novel composite coatings for biomedical applications” was held remotely on 11th September 2020. The project has received...

The Summer School on "Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics", organized by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in the framework of the EU RISE project AMITIE ("Additive Manufacturing Initiative for Transnational Innovation in Europe"), will be held on 28-30th September on a ZOOM platform. The schedule includes ex...

On 10th September, the Institute of Biomaterials held the first general (remote) meeting after the summer break with (almost) complete attendance, including senior research and teaching staff, post-doctoral researchers, PhD students, academic visitors, visiting students, technical and administrative...

The regular meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) was held remotely on 7th September. ESB will be present at the World Biomaterials Congress (WBC). Prof. Boccaccini serves in the ESB Council since 2017, currently as ESB vice-president and as officer (liaison) for the ...

This year, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 30 years of continuous membership of the German Materials Society (DGM), the largest technical society for materials science and materials engineering in Europe. Prof. Boccaccini said: "I am very proud of having been a member of DGM for 30 years. My PhD supe...