Year: 2025

Congratulations to Paula Corcosa on successfully defending her doctoral thesis on 6th October 2025. She developed and characterized antimicrobial metal ion complexes which were embedded in electrospun biodegradable polymer fibers. Paula carried out her doctoral project at the University of Fribourg,...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board (AB) of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”). The meeting was held on 24th October in Erlangen. Prof. Boccaccini has been a member of the AB of BAYLA...

Congratulations to Emine Karakaya on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Development of Alginate-Based Bioinks Exhibiting Promising Cell-Material Interactions for 3DBiofabrication Approaches” on 20th October 2025. Emine carried out her doctoral project at our Institute under the super...

The 8th International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD 2025), the latest conference of the EPD conference series supported by Engineering Conferences International (ECI),  was held on 12.10.25 – 16.10.25 in Cetraro, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini was the Chair of the conference with co-chairs ...

Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Annual Meeting 2025  of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM), which was held on 9-11 October 2025 in Dresden. Dr. Detsch gave and oral presentation on bioinks for ink jet printing in the framework of the Collaborative Research Center ...

The Institute of Biomaterials was represented by Marcela Arango Ospina at the International Workshop on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering held at the National University of Colombia (UNAL) in Bogotá from October 1–3. Following an invitation to Prof. Boccaccini, who could not attend, Marcela repres...

Our Institute was represented at the International Symposium on Brain Mechanics, EBM Symposium 2025, held in Erlangen from September 30 to October 1, 2025, and organized by CRC 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics". Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Rainer Detsch, Dr. Irem Unalan, and Markus Lorke (PhD stude...

Congratulations to Clara Dourado Fernandes on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Enzymatic Synthesis of Aliphatic Polyesters for Application in Tissue Engineering: Development and Characterization of Nanofiber Mats with Bioactive Glasses” on 17th September 2025 (online). Clara carrie...

Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva, Marcela Arango Ospina and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini successfully organized the annual BBCE (Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence) Summer School on scientific writing at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, which took place in Erlangen on 22-26 September 2025. The (10) participan...

Congratulations to Sonja Kuth on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Development of hydrogels based on oxidized hyaluronic acid for neural applications” on 26th September 2025. Sonja carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The defense...