Year: 2024

Dr. Behnam Akhavan, Head of the Plasma Bio-Engineering Group Laboratory at University of Newcastle, Australia, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 26th August 2024. Dr. Akhavan presented the invited lecture "Plasma Bio-Engineering: Advancing Biomimetic Devices, Bio-fabrication, and Nanomedi...

The 6th French-Brazilian Meeting on Polymers (FBPOL) took place on April 21-26 in Florianópolis, Brazil. The event, renowned for its success in previous editions, continued to serve as a premier platform for discussing the latest advances in polymeric systems. This year, notable participants include...

Marking his recent invited plenary lecture at Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini was interviewed (in Spanish) by the local media in San Rafael, his hometown. He gave an interview to the FM Vos radio sender a...

On 14th August 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited plenary talk at Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: “Bioactive materials and 3D biopriting: Engineering solutions ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been appointed (from 1st June 2024) Editor of the high impact Elsevier journal "Progress in Materials Science" (IF =  33.6, CiteScore = 59.6). He will collaborate with a group of 9 Editors and Editor-in-Chief Prof. Eduard Arzt in the editorial team of the journal. Progre...

Congratulations to Lulseged for receiving the Best Dissertation in polymer science and engineering Award from the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Lulseged carried his doctoral thesis titled “False Banana Fiber-Reinforced Alkali Activated Low-Calcium...

Prof. Boccaccini has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”)  for a second period (2024-2027) after having served already for three years. Prof. Boccaccini said: “I am happy to hav...

In the week of 22-26 July 2024, we received the visit of Dr. Syed Ahmed Shah, senior researcher at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN), Warsaw. The visit was in the framework of the Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Training program. He is PASIFIC Fel...

We were happy to host 10th grade students from Latvia on 23th – 25th July in the framework of our collaboration with the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE). They were the winners of the BIO-GO-Higher competition which was organised for 10th and 11th grade high school students from Latvi...

The end of the Summer Term 2024 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 23rd July 2024. Most members of the Institute, including PhD students, post-docs and permanent staff, in addition to our academic visitors and students, attended this event ...