2025

The meeting of the Board of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) was held on 15th September in the frame of the EUROMAT 2025 conference in Granada, Spain. FEMS President Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini chaired the meeting, which was attended by the Board members representing national socie...

Our Institute was well represented at the International Conference on Biofabrication (ISBF 2025), held on 13th–17th September 2025 in Warsaw, Poland. Hsuan-Heng Lu and Markus Lorke (PhD students) presented the results of their projects in oral presentations titled: “Alginate-dialdehyde–gelatin (ADA-...

On Sunday, 14th September, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, President of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), officially opened the 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes (EUROMAT 2025) in Granada, Spain, together with conference co-chairs Prof. Rodrigo...

Our Institute had a very active participation at the 34th Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB 2025),  held on 7-11 September 2025 in Turin, Italy. Seveval members of the Institute (Dr. Irem Unalan, Meng Li, Luiza Mirt, Renato Matosinhos, Sena Harmanci) contributed with po...

We are proud to announce that Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has received the prestigious George Winter Award from theEuropean Society for Biomaterials (ESB), a recognition that honors pioneers whose work has made lasting contributions to the field of biomaterials. He presented a plenary talk at the 34th ...

Our Institute was well represented at the XIX Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS 2025),  held on 31st August-4th September 2025 in Dresden, Germany. Marcela Arango-Ospina, Zoya Hadzhieva presented the results of their project with the poster titled: "Effect of protein-containing simul...

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 ...