Month: September 2024

On 27 September 2024 we received the visit of Prof. Dachamir Hotza, from the Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Prof. Hotza is coordinator from the Brazilian side of our collaborative project “Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-FAU”, which is funded by the Resea...

Our Institute had an active participation and contribution to the success of the Materials Science and Engineering MSE Congress (MSE 2024)  held in Darmstadt, Germany, and in hybrid format on 24-26 September 2024, a conference organised by the  DGM (German Society of Materials Science). Prof. Boccac...

We congratulate Zoya Hadzhieva for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of advanced bioactive and antibacterial zein-based coatings on titanium for biomedical applications“ on 20th September 2024. Zoya carried out her doctoral project in our Institute s...

Ms. Hsuan-Heng Lu, who is carrying out her doctoral thesis in our Institute under the supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 225 ‘From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" has won Best Student Poster prese...

Ms Zhiyan Xu, who is carrying out her doctoral thesis in our Institute under the supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has won Best Student Poster presentation award (category: Joint China-EU Collaborative Research) at the 8th China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine, held i...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the Chair of the 8th China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine (CESB 2024),  held in Nuremberg, Germany, on 15-18 September, 2024. The CESB series of symposia bring together two major Biomaterials Societies, namely the Chinese Society for Biomateria...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was the main organizer of the Topic 08: "Bioceramics" at the 99th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG),  which was held in Koblenz University of Applied Sciences / WesterWaldCampus, Höhr-Grenzhausen, on 09.-11.09.2024. He co-chaired all "bioceramics" sessions w...

The first Retreat of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), took place on 4-6 September 2024 in Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, organised by Prof. Claudia Fleck, from the Institute for Materials Science, TU Berlin. At the...

On 3-4 September 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Workshop NATUGEL 2024 - Natural Hydrogels for Applications in Tissue Engineering at the Campus Mechanical Engineering Garbsen, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), organised by Professor Birgit Glasmacher and Sara Leal Marin, M.Sc., Institut...

In the week 2-6 September 2024, our Institute was part of the BEST (Board of European Students of Technology)  course in Erlangen on "Additive Manufacturing", in which engineering students from several EU countries participated. Prof. Boccaccini attended the Opening Ceremony of the course and delive...