2024

We congratulate Susanne Heid for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Alginate-based composite bioinks and thermoplastic polymers as biomaterials for sequential 3D printing of tissue constructs and bioreactors” on 15th March 2024. Susanne carried out her doctoral project in our Institu...

On 13th March 2024 our Institute received the visit of Dr. Ladislav Čelko, Head of the Research Group, and Dr Pavel Gejdoš from the High-Performance Materials and Coatings for Industry at Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Brno, Czech Republic. The visitors toured our laboratories an...

On 12th March, Prof. Dr. Anayancy Osorio Madrazo, Professorship for Organ Printing at University of Bayreuth, and Ms Shaghayegh Jahangir, PhD student, visited the Institute of Biomaterials. Hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Professor Osorio Madrazo presented the lecture: "Bioinspired fiber/hydroge...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini celebrates 30 years since earning his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing., eq. to PhD) at RWTH Aachen University, "Institut für Gesteinshüttenkunde (GHI)" - (now Institute of Mineral Engineering). He defended his doctoral thesis, carried out under supervision of the late Prof. Gerhard...

On 29th February, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented (online) the keynote talk "Bioactive glass meets bioprinting: new approaches for tissue engineering and drug delivery" at the International Conference on Innovations in Biomaterials and Nanotechnology (BioNanoCon), This conference took place in hy...

Lisa Schoebel, PhD student in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and carrying out a project in the framework of the DFG funded Collaborative Research Center SFB 1270/2 ELAINE - Electrically Active Implants has started a research internship at the Shriram Center for Bioengineering ...

The retreat of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (WW Department) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg took place on 22-23 February 2024 in Fürth (Bavaria). Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting representing the FAU Institute of Biomaterials, the Chair VII (WW7) of the WW Departm...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN ), which was held on 21st February 2024 in Brussels. Prof. Boccaccini is a founding member of KMM-VIN and he has been the coordinator of the Working ...

During the first half of 2024 we are hosting three researchers from the Department of Biomaterials of FunGlass Centre, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia, including Mr Ertugrul Varlik, PhD student co-supervised by Dr. Ing. Martin Michálek (FunGlass) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (FAU). ...

In the framework of the seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials", Dr. Alexander B. Tesler, Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion, FAU, presented the invited talk:  "Non-Wettable Ultra Slippery Metallic Surfaces for Biofouling- and Corrosion-Resistance Applications" on 15th February 2024. We d...