International

Augusto Covone, a student from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, who carried out a research internship at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in the framework of the I.DEAR Program (Engineers Deutschland-Argentina, (part of the German-Argentine Univer...

Assoc. Prof. Hamza Simsir, Karabük University, Turkey, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 17-19 April 2024, in the framework of an Erasmus's short-term mobility program. He presented the seminar: "Introduction to hydrothermal carbon materials and their applications" to all members of the I...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the European Training Network (ETN) BIOREMIA ("BIOfilm-REsistant Materials for hard tissue Implant Applications") (Horizon 2020-MSCA) Final Workshop held on 15-17 April in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Bioactive glasses m...

Marcela Arango Ospina, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials, attended the Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas held in Panama on 7-11 April, organised by the American Ceramic Society. Marcela gave a talk during the Bioceramics session on "Antibacterial proper...

The first meeting of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS)  was held online on 9th April 2024 online with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, a founding member of the network. The Bioceramics Network was established in 2022 by the European Ceramic Societ...

On 28th March 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini visited Prof. Helen H. Lu, the Percy K. and Vida L.W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director, Biomaterials and Interface Tissue Engineering Laboratory, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, in New York City, US...

The 2nd edition of the Additive Manufacturing for Health (AMH) Workshop took place in Nantes, France, on  20-22 March 2024, organised by Prof. Catherine Le Visage (Nantes University) and Dr. Luciano Vidal (École Centrale Nantes / Clinique Bretéché-Elsan) (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini). Prof. Aldo ...

On 13th March 2024 our Institute received the visit of Dr. Ladislav Čelko, Head of the Research Group, and Dr Pavel Gejdoš from the High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry at Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno, Czech Republic. The visitors toured our laboratories an...

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. ...