Month: June 2019

In June 2019 we received the visit of Ms Viviana Gomes (graduate student at Department of Materials & Ceramic Engineering,) University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal, in the group of Dr. Maria Helena Fernandes and Dr. Jose Carlos Almeida. We are collaborating with the research group at UA in the frame...

The PLOS ONE - Open Biomaterials Research Collection, co-edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been published in PLOS ONE. Co-editors of the collection were Prof. Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Prof. Michael McAlpine, University of Minnesota, USA and Prof. Jie ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a visiting professor at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Universität für Bodenkultur - BOKU), Vienna, Austria, hosted by Professor Cornelia Kasper, Department for Biotechnology, BOKU. In the week 27th-31st May 2019, Prof. Boccaccini delivered the...

Congratulations to Prof. Josefina Ballarre, visiting researcher from INTEMA, National Univ. of Mar del Plata, Argentina, who won the Best Poster Award at the 7th Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry of South-East Europe (RSE-SEE-7) held in Split, Croatia, on 27-30 May 2019. The title of the awarde...

Muhammad Maqbool successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 27th May 2019 at the Institute of Biomaterials. He carried out his thesis (Dr.-Ing.) under academic supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, and in collaboration with industrial partner Lucideon Ltd, (Stoke-on-Trent, UK). His project invo...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Akademietag 2019 of acatech (National Academy of Science and Engineering), held in Hamburg on 24th Nov. 2019. The meeting was devoted to "Biotechnology and its growing importance" and it was led by acatech's president Prof. Dieter Spath. Prof. Boccaccini said: "...