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Vising professors, post-docs, PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Spring and Summer of 2025. We are hosting researchers from 13 (!) different countries, who are working on numerous biomaterial related projects on...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held on 26th February 2025 in presence in Brussels and online, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmi...

The First Retreat 2025 of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was held on 24-26 February 2025 in Kloster Banz, Bavaria, Germany. Hsuan-Heng Lu, Jonas Roeder (PhD students, working on projects B03 and A01, respective...

The first research in progress meeting of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue) in 2025 was organised by Dr. Irem Unalan and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials, FAU. It took place on 25th February with participation of all members of the Resea...

Topic: Energy Materials Monday, 17.03.2025 | 15:00 - 19:00 | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg - Bernhard-Ilschner-Hörsaal (H14) - Martensstraße 5-7, 91058 Erlangen Program as pdf

The retreat of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW Department) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg took place on 20-21 February 2025 in Weisendorf (Bavaria). Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting representing the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, the Chair VII (WW7) of the WW De...

During the visit of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva to the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), an important meeting with members of the FunGlass Department of Biomaterials, led by Dr. Martin  Michálek, was organized on 19th February 2025 with the partic...

The Review Meeting of the FunGlass  H2020 EU Teaming project (grant agreement Nº739566) was held at University of Trencin, Slovakia, on 17-19th February 2025, chaired by the director of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attend...

On 14th February we received the visit of Associate Professor Egemen Avcu, Prof. Rıdvan Yamanoğlu and Prof. Abdulkadir Cengiz from the Department of Machine and Metal Technologies, Kocaeli University, Turkey. We had collaborated previously with Prof. Avcu on electrophoretic deposition of bioactive c...

Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Biomaterials Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 2nd Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 12th February 2025 in hybrid form. This scientific symposium inc...