Year: 2025

The end of the Summer Term 2025 was celebrated with the traditional Summer BBQ of the Institute of Biomaterials, held on 23rd July 2025 in Erlangen. The event was well attended by most members of the Institute, including PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, permanent staff, as well as academic vi...

The 4th edition of Research.com is available online. The platform presents a comprehensive ranking of researchers globally, which based on data combined from various data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The methodology behind the rankings is detailed on the Research.com website. The positio...

We are happy to announce that Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva was one of the recipients of the Award for Best Doctoral Thesis 2025 of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The Department recognizes outstanding doctoral theses carried out in any of the 9 Inst...

On 17th July, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the invited talk: "Bioactive glasses: From bone tissue engineering to biofabrication and ionic medicine" at the Americal Ceramic Society (ACerS)–Wiley Advanced Webinar on Bioceramics, Biomaterials, and Additive Manufacturing for Healthcare. He shared ...

Prof. Athina E. Markaki from the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, was the invited speaker at the Materials Science Kolloquium Summer Term 2025, at the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Prof. Markaki presented the talk: "B...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the "Current status of orthopedic research" Symposium, which was held at the Orthopedic Clinic  University of Regensburg - Asklepios Klinikum Bad Abbach, on 5th July. He presented the Keynote lecture: "Tissue regeneration approaches using (ion relea...

The annual progress meeting (M30) of the EU (Horizon Europe) project Nanobloc(R) (ANTIVIRAL, ANTIBACTERIAL & ANTIFUNGAL NANOCOATING PLATFORM) was held online on 1st July 2024. Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva, Ms Andrada Damian-Buda (investigators on the project) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meet...

We welcome the vising professors, post-docs, PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students who have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Summer of 2025. We are hosting junior and senior researchers from more than 11 different countries, who are working on a range ...

Many congratulations to Daniela Jaramillo Raquejo, PhD student at FunGlass Centre  (Trencin, Slovakia) (supervisor: Dr. Martin Michálek in co-supervision with Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FAU)  on receiving the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the European Orthopaedi...

On 13th June 2025, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended (online) the symposium organised at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, to celebrate the career of Prof. Leena Hupa from sss. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk: "Bioactive glasses: from composition to applications (A short summary of my rese...