2019

On 6th December 2019 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the progress meeting of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, held at Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS), ...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the 100 year anniversary celebration event of the German Materials Society (DGM), held in Berlin on 27th November 2019. Prof. Boccaccini (*) said: "I have been member of DGM for more than 20 years, since the time I was a PhD student at RWTH Aachen, and the society has been ...

On 16-30 November 2019, we received the visit of Dr. Beatriz Araoz, researcher affiliated with the "Lab3Bio  - Laboratorio de Biomateriales, Biomecánica y Bioinstrumentación", School of Science and Technology, National University of San Martin (UNSAM), Argentina. The visit was in the framework of ou...

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...

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 ...

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...

We welcome the visiting Master students 2019/20 from National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP) <http://www.mdp.edu.ar/index.php/en/>, Argentina; Sofia Melucci and Manuela Matar Prior, who will carry out academic activities in our Institute in the framework of the student exchange I.DEAR pro...