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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...

Co-organised by the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) and the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Joint E-MRS - FEMS Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Materials Science & Engineering, was successfully held in Brussels on 23rd January under the Auspices of ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the first meeting of the year of the Management Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), which took place online on 17th January 2025. Prof. Boccaccini is the president of FEMS for the period 2024-2025 and represents the German Materials So...

The Grand Opening of the new building and premises of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287) in Riga, Latvia, took place on 20th January 2025. The building is placed in the Riga Technical University (RTU) student campus in Ķīpsala. This modern b...

We are happy to present our new logo! The logo was selected by the vote of all participants at the 15th Anniversary symposium of the Institute, held last November in Erlangen. Many thanks to Ms Camilla Boccaccini (San Rafael, Argentina) for helping us with the design.

Our Institute is hosting Assoc. Prof. Dana Rohanová from the Department of Glass and Ceramics at the University of Chemistry and Technology (UCT), Prague, Czech Republic. Prof. Rohanová has high expertise in the characterization of a wide range of glasses, glass-ceramics and ceramic materials in con...

On 15th January, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered an invited lecture at Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Engineering and Design, to Bomedical Engineering Master students and researchers of the Chair of Medical Materials and Implants (MMI), (Head: Prof. Dr. Petra Mela). Prof. Boccaccin...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, has been selected as the winner of the George Winter Award 2024 of the European Society for Biomaterials. The George Winter Award was established by the ESB to recognize, encourage and stimulate outstanding research contributions t...

The FEMS Winter Newsletter 2024 has been published and it is available in the FEMS webpage. In his message to the members of the FEMS affiliated societies, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FEMS President 2024/25) wrote: "It has been an honour to serve as FEMS President this year. I am especially grateful t...

We thank all Institute’s members, staff, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, students, visiting scientists, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment, hard work and continuous support this year, in which we achieved many goals together! Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christm...