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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...

We thank our Institute's members, students, collaborators and supporters for the great commitment this year in which we achieved many goals together! Wishing everyone Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and a Healthy and Successful New Year!

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...

The End-of-Year meeting and Christmas Dinner of the Institute of Biomaterials was held on 12th December 2023 with the presence of staff, students and guests of our Institute. Prof. Boccaccini summarized in his presentation the main achievements and activities of the Institute in 2023. He highlighted...

We are finishing the year with good news. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved for funding the Research Unit "Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue", which will focus on materials science structure-property strategies based on natural systems with evolutionarily optimised fatigue resistance. The Res...

On 8th December 2023 we hosted the visit of a delegation from the Center for Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV), Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil. This visit was in the context of the 1-week visit of the Brazilan delegation to University of Erlangen-Nuremberg i...