2023

It was an honor to welcome Prof. Rajendra K. Bordia, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, USA, to our Institute on 3rd August 2023. During his visit to the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Prof. Bordia met also Prof. Boccaccini and discussed genera...

On 28th July 2023, we received the visit of Dr. Andrew Daly, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway. He was in Erlangen as one of the invited speakers in the Summer School 2023 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR225 “Biofabrication”, co-or...

Many congratulations to Meng Li, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials. Meng received an  “Excellent Academic Poster” award at the Chinese Materials Conference 2022-2023 (CMC2022-2023), Shenzhen, on 7-10 July 2023. The Chinese Materials Conference is one of the most important conference serie...

The Summer School 2023 of the Collaborative Research Center SFB/TRR225 "Biofabrication" took place in Erlangen in the week 24-28 July, coordinated by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU) and Prof. Felix Engel (University Hospital Erlangen, UKER). The Summer School involved lectures given by high profile s...

We are delighted to have hosted/be hosting many international researchers, collaborators, visiting PhD students and undergraduate visiting (Erasmus) students who have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the summer of 2023. They are working on a great variety of biomateri...

On 21st July 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini represented, together with Prof. Kyle Webber, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Graduation Ceremony of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From our Department, graduates from the courses Materials Sc...

On 17-25 July 2023 we received the visit of Prof. Dachamir Hotza, from the Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), coordinator from the Brazilian side of our collaborative project “Ph.D. with Double Degree UFSC-FAU”, which is funded by the Research Foundation of...

The end of the Summer Term 2023 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 17th July 2023. Most members of the Institute, including our academic visitors and students, in addition to PhD students, post-docs and permanent staff, attended this cele...

On 18th July 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited seminar (online) "Bioactive glass containing composites" at the Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, following an invitation of Prof. Gigliola Lusvardi. We are currently collab...

On 11th July, Prof. Host Fischer, head of the Chair of Dental Prosthetics, Implantology, and Biomaterials, at RWTH Aachen University Hospital, visited our Institute and gave an invited presentation in the framework of the Materials Science Colloquium in Summer Term 2023 of the FAU Department of Mate...