Month: August 2025

The second Retreat of the Research Unit "Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue" (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), took place on 25-27 August 2025 in Eisenach, organised by Prof. Claudia Fleck, from the Institute for Materials Science, TU Berlin. At the Retreat, all membe...

We are delighted to share that Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), will be receiving the Larry L. Hench Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bioceramics Division of the The American Ceramic Society this year. The Award for innovation is given annually to deserving i...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini will be one of the Plenary Speakers at the 34th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) to be held in Turin, Italy, on 7-11 September 2025. Professor Boccaccini receives this year the prestigious George Winter Award of ESB . The George Winter award i...

Congratulations to Halldór Kárason on successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “Towards wearable biomechanics: Development of a nanocomposite sensor and physics-informed neural networks for muscle-tendon force estimation” on 5th August, 2025. Hálldor carried out his doctoral project at the ...

Three of our PhD students: Ms. Luiza Mirt, Ms. Marina Maric and Mr. Renato Matosinhos completed 1-month secondments at Ti-com, an organization based in Olsztyn, Poland, that bridges academic innovation and commercial success through large-animal clinical research. The secondments were carried out in...