2019

Prof. *Aldo R. Boccaccini* has been reelected for a second period of 4 years as member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). In the new Council, Prof. Boccaccini will become vice-president of the society for the period 2019-2023. The European Society for Biomaterials as one ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been elevated to the category of Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT)  in the framework of the Annual Conference of SGT, held in Cambridge, UK, on 2-5 September 2019. Prof. Boccaccini said: "I have been participating in numerous conferences organised by SGT f...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was member of the scientific committee of the EUROPEAN CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION ON ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES (EUROMAT 2019), held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 1-5 September 2019. He was the Coordinator for Area F: Materials for Healthcare (with Prof. Håkan Engqvist, Uppsal...

On 2nd and 3rd September, the Institute of Biomaterials took part in the initiative "Girls/boys and technology" (“Mädchen/Jungen und Technik”) at FAU aiming to attract the interest of children to science and technology topics, specially showing examples of experimental / laboratory work carried out ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the Annual Conference of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) "Sand to Splendour" held in Cambridge, UK, on 2-5 September 2019. He presented the lecture "Bioactive glasses: from bone regeneration to wound healing" at the Science Session of the Conf...

On 29-30 August 2019, we received the visit of Prof. Wojciech Swieszkowski, Biomaterials Group, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland. We discussed with Prof. Swieszkowski future research collaboration in the field of bioactive composites and 3D ...

Supachai Reakasame (Boo) successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 30th August 2019 at the Institute of Biomaterials. He carried out his thesis (Dr.-Ing.) under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, with a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). His project was in t...

On 27th August 2019, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was at Ilmenau University of Technology (TU Ilmenau), Ilmenau, Germany, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, where he attended the scientific presentation of Dr. Sukhdeep Singh entitled "Chemical toolbox for designing small bioactive molecules an...

In August 2019 we received the visit of Lorenzo Degli Esposti, PhD student based at the Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC-CNR) (Director: Dr. Anna Tampieri) in Faenza, Italy, where he carries out research under supervision of Dr. Michele Iafisco in the field of inorganic nanoma...