Doctoral thesis success: Faina Schäfer (born Bider)
Congratulations to Faina Schäfer for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Optimizing Alginate Hydrogels with Phytotherapeutics, Biomolecules, and Inorganic Fillers for Biofabrication” on 12th May, 2025.
Faina carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The defense was conducted in presence in Erlangen and the members of the doctoral defense committee were: Prof. Silvia Faré (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy), Prof. Carolin Koerner (Department of Mater. Sci. and Engineering, FAU), Prof. Silvia Budday (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, FAU) and Prof. Boccaccini. Prof. Boccaccini highlighted the impactful results obtained by Faina in her project. Faina developed and characterised a new family of algnate based hydrogels, enriched with phytotherapeutics, biomolecules and mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles to achieve antibacterial effects and biomineralization for biofabrication applications. Several papers have been already published resulting from Faina’s thesis [1-3]. Many congratulations to Faina for the successful defense of her doctoral thesis, we wish Faina all the best in her future career.
[1] F. Bider, et al., 3D bioprinting of multifunctional alginate dialdehyde (ADA)-gelatin (GEL) (ADA-GEL) hydrogels incorporating ferulic acid,
Int J Biol Macromol 25 (2024) 128449. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.128449
[2] F. Bider, et al., Enhancing alginate dialdehyde-gelatin (ADA-GEL) based hydrogels for biofabrication by addition of phytotherapeutics and mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles (MBGNs), J Biomater Appl 39 (2025) 524-556. doi: 10.1177/08853282241280768
[3] F. Bider, et al., Ferulic acid and human platelet lysate incorporated alginate dialdehyde-gelatin 3D (bio)printable hydrogels with biological activity, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 141 (2024) e55992. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/app.55992
