2025

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...

Congratulations to Sara Gil Cantero on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Immune risk management of biomimetic scaffolds” on 29th July, 2025. Sara carried out her doctoral project at Medical University Vienna (MUV), Austria, supervised by Prof. Johannes Stoeckel, at the MUV Institute...

It is great to report that during the first six months of 2025, our research projects in collaboration with colleagues from 20 countries have resulted in numerous publications, which can be found at this link: https://scholar.google.com/citations We are proud and honored to collaborate with such ...

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...