Year: 2023

The 1st Retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC /SFB 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics" (EBM) took place on 21-22 September 2023 in Bad Windsheim. Mr Markus Lorke (PhD student on the project) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attened the meeting. The CRC benetifs from the expertise of engineers, p...

Ms Jessica Lippert, who carried out her Master thesis in our Institute, has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2022 (2nd prize) for her Master thesis: “Study of the synergistic effects of bioactive glasses with Manuka honey”. The project was carried out at the Institute of Bioma...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Ms Lisa Schoebel (PhD student) participated at the 7th Retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) SFB 1270/2 “ELAINE – Electrically Active Implants” held on 18-20 September 2023 at Schloss & Gut Ulrichshusen, Schwinkendorf.  The activities of ELAINE focus on ...

Our Institute had a strong show at the Annual Meeting 2023 of the _German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held on 14-16 September 2023 in Jena. Prof. Boccaccini chaired the session “Antimicrobials and Translation″, Dr. Rainer Detsch chaired the session “Additive Manufacturing” and present...

Prof. Claudia Sayer from Federal University of Santa Catarina, (UFSC), Departamento de Engenharia Química e Engenharia de Alimentos (Brazil), visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 11th September 2023. We currently have a joint project with UFSC, "Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-FAU”, which is funde...

On 12th September, we received the visit of Prof. Sebastián Díaz de La Torre, from Centro de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica CIITEC, Instituto Politécnico Nacional IPN, Mexico. We are currently planning a collaboration with Prof. de La Torre  in the field of ceramic-metal composites for biome...

On 12th September 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS), which is being coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini is a founding member of the Network. The ...

The initiative “Girls and Technology” of the Faculty of Engineering of FAU was held in the Institute of Biomaterials on 4-8 September 2023. 12 girls (Grades 7-12) participated in activities around the topic of “Electrospinning for wound dressing”. The girls received lectures and carried out experime...

Dr. Irem Unalan, our alumna (former PhD student) and currently post-doctoral researcher in our Institute, has won the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2023 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM). Irem earned her Dr-Ing. degree in 2022 with a project that focused on the processing and characterisati...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini finished his 8 year tenure as member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). Prof. Boccaccini had been elected member of the ESB Council initially in 2015 for a period of 4 years. He was then reelected for the ESB Council in 2019, having served as ESB ...