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At the Poster Session 2024 of the Master’s Programme Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) held on 1st February 2024 at the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films, FAU, Ms Aleksandra Klassa (MAP Master student) was the winner of the award for best student poster. The research project (mi...

On 1st February, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited talk at the "Research Day" of the FAU Research Center "New Bioactive Compounds" (FAU NeW) at the Faculty of Sciences, FAU. Prof. Boccaccini, NeW member, presented the talk: "Bioactive Materials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering: P...

The Winter School 2024 of the EU H2020-MCSA-ITN-EJD-2020 project PERSPECTIVES FOR FUTURE INNOVATION IN TENDON REPAIR” (P4FIT) took place in Seefeld, Austria, on 17-20 January 2024, organized by Prof.  Johannes Stöckl Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with Prof. Helder Santos (P...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 30 years of continuous membership of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG). He started his membership in 1993 when he was a doctoral student at RWTH Aachen (Germany). Prof. Boccaccini said: “Over the years I have participated in numerous activities organised by ...

The first meeting of the year 2024 the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 10th January 2024 online with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, a founding member of the network. The network is coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytec...

In January 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini started his tenure as president of the _Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) for 2024-25. He had been confirmed as FEMS president at the FEMS General Assembly that took place in Frankfurt, Germany, on 5th September 2023. Prof. Boccaccini h...

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The final meeting of the year 2023 the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) was held online on 20th December 2023 with participation of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The network is coordinated by Prof. Paola Palmero from Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. Prof. Boccaccini i...

In 2023, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini marks 25 years of continuous membership of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), based in London, UK. He started his membership in October 1998 as he was a post-doctoral researcher at TU Ilmenau (Germany). He was then elected Fellow of IOM3 (FI...

The tenure of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Letters (and Materials Letters X) comes to an end on December 31st , 2023, after almost 14 years. The press release from the publisher Elsevier is available. Prof. Boccaccini became the journal’s first Editor-in-Ch...