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Last week we said good-bye to Dr. Kai Zheng, a valuable member of our Institute for almost ten years, as PhD student, post-doctoral and associated researcher, who worked on many projects related to sol-gel derived bioactive glasses for drug delivery and tissue engineering. Kai will start his indepen...

On 23rd September 2021, Dr. Deepanjalee Dutta, affiliated with Institute for Biophysics in the group of Prof. Dr. Dorothea Brüggemann and at the DFG project "Micro-, meso- and macroporous nonmetallic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications" (MIMENIMA)  led by Prof. Kurosch Rezwan at University of B...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC)  of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), chaired by FEMS president Prof. Eric Le Bourhis, which took place online on 21st September 2021.  Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of the German Materials So...

Several members of our Institute attended The European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2021), held online on 13-17 September 2021. Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the scientific committee of EUROMAT 2021 as co-organiser of Symposium F1. He was also session chai...

The initiative “Girls and technology” (“Mädchen und Technik”)  of the Faculty of Engineering of FAU was held in the Institute of Biomaterials on 6-10 September 2021. 28 girls (Grades 7-12) participated in activities around the topic of “Electrospinning for wound dressing”. The girls received lecture...

The special issue devoted to the "Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalized glass (FUNGLASS)" has been published in Int. J. Appl. Glass Science Volume12, Issue 4 (Oct. 2021). The special issue, co-edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and principal investigators of the FunGlass centre (Profs. En...

Several members of our Institute attended the _31st Annual Conference (ESB 2021) _(LINK: _https://esb2021.org/_ )_of the _European Society for Biomaterials (ESB)  which was held online on 6-9 September 2021. Professor Boccaccini, currently the vice-president of the European Society for Biomaterials,...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the online meeting of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) held on 1st September. The next important ESB event starts on Sunday 5th September: the 31st Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2021),  to be held online. Prof. Bo...

*I.DEAR - Cooperation with Argentina for Master Students in its Seventh Year. *The cooperation program with National University of Mar del Plata in Argentina enters its seventh year. The program is supported *by I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien)*  and enables Master students of Materials S...

Ms Seray Schmitz (née Kaya), who carried out her doctoral thesis at our Institute, under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, and in collaboration with industrial partner Lucideon Ltd  UK, successfully defended her thesis on 25th August 2021.Her thesis entitled: “Ion doped mesoporous si...