2023

In January 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini started his tenure as president of the _Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) for 2024-25. He had been confirmed as FEMS president at the FEMS General Assembly that took place in Frankfurt, Germany, on 5th September 2023. Prof. Boccaccini h...

We thank our Institute's members, students, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment this year in which we achieved many goals together! Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Successful New Year!

The final meeting of the year 2023 the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 20th December 2023 with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The network is coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini i...

In 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 25 years of continuous membership of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), based in London, UK. He started his membership in October 1998 as he was a post-doctoral researcher at TU Ilmenau (Germany). He was then elected Fellow of IOM3 (FI...

The tenure of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Letters (and Materials Letters X) comes to an end on December 31st , 2023, after almost 14 years. The press release from the publisher Elsevier is available. Prof. Boccaccini became the journal’s first Editor-in-Ch...

The End-of-Year meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials was held on 12th December 2023 with the presence of staff, students and guests of our Institute. Prof. Boccaccini summarized in his presentation the main achievements and activities of the Institute in 2023. He highlighted...

We are finishing the year with good news. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved for funding the Research Unit "Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue", which will focus on materials science structure-property strategies based on natural systems with evolutionarily optimised fatigue resistance. The Res...

On 8th December 2023 we hosted the visit of a delegation from the Center for Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV), Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil. This visit was in the context of the 1-week visit of the Brazilan delegation to University of Erlangen-Nuremberg i...

In the week of 4-8.12.2023 Ioannis Tsamesidis (Post-Doc), Evangelia Balla (PhD student), Nicolaos Bikiaris (PhD Student) from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, visited the Institute of Biomaterials in the framework of the DAAD (Greek-German collaboration, IKYDA) project. Prof. Aldo R. ...

On 7th December Prof. Martin F. Desimone, professor at Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires,  Argentina, and principal investigator of CONICET, Argentina, presented the invited talk "Exploring the immunomodulatory potential of nanoparticles" in the frame of the seminar se...