International

Professor Chris Cheeseman , professor of Materials Resources Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, UK, visited our Institute on 16-20 December 2013 in the framework of the visiting professors program of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. We...

Prof. Luismar Marques Porto, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianopolis, Brazil, one of the leading academic and research institutions in Brazil, is visiting our Institute. He is affiliated with the Integrated Technologies Laboratory at UFSC. In collaborat...

Professor D. Bikiaris of the Chemistry Dept. at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, visited out Institute in the week 9-13 December 2013. During his visit the last meeting of our DAAD funded IKYDA project took place. This project, entitled: "Novel bionanocomposites for bone tissue engineer...

Dr Thomas Fiedler, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia, visited our Institute on 13th December. There is a current collaboration between the group of Dr Fiedler and Prof Boccaccini in the field of modeling of the mechanical properties of 3D porous scaffolds and future collabor...

On 24-26 November 2013, Prof. Boccaccini visited the Rudjer Boskovic Institute in Zagreb (Croatia), in the framework of our collaboration with Prof. Neven Zarkovic and Dr Lidija Milkovic. This project investigates the development and characterisation of Cu-doped bioactive glasses for bone regenerati...

On 20th November we received the visit of Prof. Toshihiro Kasuga and Prof. Yuji Iwamoto (in the photo with Prof. Boccaccini) of the Department of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) . This visit is in the framework of our continous research col...

Dr. Antonella Sola, a research scientist at the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy, is visiting our Institute. We collaborate in a project investigating the fabrication and functionalisation of bioactive glass scaffolds based on novel silica...

On 4th November we received the visit of Prof. F. Rossignol and Prof. Z. Haidar from the Science of Ceramic Processing and Surface Treatments, SPCTS, European Ceramic Centre in Limoges, France. There are strong links between our Institute and SPCTS and we discussed expanding our collaborations in th...