Year: 2024

The end of the Summer Term 2024 was marked by the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, which took place on 23rd July 2024. Most members of the Institute, including PhD students, post-docs and permanent staff, in addition to our academic visitors and students, attended this event ...

Dr. Irem Unalan, researcher at the Institute of Biomaterials, has received a grant from the FAU Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) to support her research project at the Institute of Biomaterials (Head: Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) titled: "Multifunctional Organic-Inorganic Melt Electrowritten Scaffolds...

The International Workshop "Engineering of Tailored Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration" was organised by Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini on 22nd July 2024 at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, as part of the 13th International Conference on Voice Physiology and Biomechanics (22nd - ...

The Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) Board meeting and General Assembly took place in the frame of the FEMS Junior Euromat conference in Manchester, UK, and in hybrid form. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FEMS President for the period 24/25  chaired the Board meeting on 15th July attended...

As President of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the FEMS Junior EUROMAT conference held in Manchester, UK, on 15-18 July 2024, organised by the Inst. of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). Prof. Boccaccini welcomed the attendees at the open...

Ms. Jana Reh, who carried out her Master thesis under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in our Institute, with technical supervision of Ms Faina Bider, has won the Best Master thesis award 2024 of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Ms. Reh's Master thesis is titled: “Inco...

We are happy to announce that Dr. Susanne Heid received the award for best doctoral thesis 2024 of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The Department recognizes two outstanding doctoral theses carried out in any of the nine Institutes of the Depar...

  On 10th July 2024, we received the visit of Prof. Cristiano de Andrade from the Chemical Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. Prof. de Andrade is one of the principal investigator and Ph.D. supervisor in our collaborative project “Ph.D. with Double Degr...

On 8th July 2024, we received the visit of Dr. Andy Tay, Assistant Professor, Presidential Young Professor, at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS) . Prof. Tay presented the invited lecture: "Innovating wound care with biomaterials". He also visited the la...

On 8th July, we received the visit of Dr. Christian Damiani, senior researcher at the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Laboratory for Medical Sensor and Device Technology. Dr. Damiani discussed several topics of common research interest and visited our laboratories. We are collaborating with D...