International

Many international researchers, including guest professors, post-docs, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Winter term 2024/25. We are hosting guests from 14 (!) different countries, who are working on n...

On 29th January 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) co-chaired the FEMS online event exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Materials Science, which brought together leading experts from industry and academia to d...

-6 November 2024, our Institute hosted the Workshop “Advanced drug delivery and drug targeting” in the framework of our training activities for researchers based at the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE), in Riga, Latvia, EU-funded project (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287). The ...

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...

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...

The Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) Board meeting and General Assembly took place in the frame of the FEMS Junior Euromat conference in Manchester, UK, and in hybrid form. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FEMS President for the period 24/25  chaired the Board meeting on 15th July attended...

On 25th June we received the visit of 10 Biomedical Engineering students from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, led by Prof. Hernán Darío Vargas Cardona. The students attended presentations on biomaterials by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini, Dr. R. Detsch, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Dr. Irem ...

Congratulations to Leulseged Belay Addis for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “False Banana Fiber-Reinforced Alkali Activated Low-Calcium Fly Ash-based Geopolymer Composites: Development, Characterization, and Performance Evaluation” on 24th June 2024 at Bahir Dar University Institu...

As part of the DAAD funded project (Greek-German Cooperation, IKYDAAD) for the development of chitosan-based antimicrobial composite hydrogels (hydrogels with bioactive glass nanoparticles) for oral wound healing, Ms. Zhiyan Xu and Ms. Hannah Kissel (PhD students) visited our colleagues at Aristotle...

On 13th June we received the visit of 15 students from the School of Metallurgy Engineering from Industrial University of Santander (Universidad Industrial de Santander), Colombia, coordinated by Prof. Carlos Andrés Galán Pinilla. The students attended presentations on biomaterials by Prof. A. R. Bo...