International

The Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) Board meeting and General Assembly took place in the frame of the FEMS Junior Euromat conference in Manchester, UK, and in hybrid form. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FEMS President for the period 24/25  chaired the Board meeting on 15th July attended...

On 25th June we received the visit of 10 Biomedical Engineering students from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, led by Prof. Hernán Darío Vargas Cardona. The students attended presentations on biomaterials by Prof. A. R. Boccaccini, Dr. R. Detsch, Dr. Qaisar Nawaz and Dr. Irem ...

Congratulations to Leulseged Belay Addis for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled “False Banana Fiber-Reinforced Alkali Activated Low-Calcium Fly Ash-based Geopolymer Composites: Development, Characterization, and Performance Evaluation” on 24th June 2024 at Bahir Dar University Institu...

As part of the DAAD funded project (Greek-German Cooperation, IKYDAAD) for the development of chitosan-based antimicrobial composite hydrogels (hydrogels with bioactive glass nanoparticles) for oral wound healing, Ms. Zhiyan Xu and Ms. Hannah Kissel (PhD students) visited our colleagues at Aristotle...

On 13th June we received the visit of 15 students from the School of Metallurgy Engineering from Industrial University of Santander (Universidad Industrial de Santander), Colombia, coordinated by Prof. Carlos Andrés Galán Pinilla. The students attended presentations on biomaterials by Prof. A. R. Bo...

Many international researchers, visiting PhD students and undergraduate (Erasmus) students have chosen our Institute to carry out their research projects during the Spring of 2024. We are hosting guests from 13 (!) different countries, who are working on numerous biomaterial related projects involvi...

On 27th May 2024, at the opening ceremony of the 12th World Biomaterials Congress (WBC 2024), held in Daegu, South Korea, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was inducted to the International College of Fellows of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Becoming a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (...

Augusto Covone, a student from the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), Argentina, who carried out a research internship at the FAU Institute of Biomaterials in the framework of the I.DEAR Program (Engineers Deutschland-Argentina, (part of the German-Argentine Univer...

Assoc. Prof. Hamza Simsir, Karabük University, Turkey, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 17-19 April 2024, in the framework of an Erasmus's short-term mobility program. He presented the seminar: "Introduction to hydrothermal carbon materials and their applications" to all members of the I...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the European Training Network (ETN) BIOREMIA ("BIOfilm-REsistant Materials for hard tissue Implant Applications") (Horizon 2020-MSCA) Final Workshop held on 15-17 April in Vienna, Austria. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "Bioactive glasses m...