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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 ...

Three of our PhD students: Ms. Luiza Mirt, Ms. Marina Maric and Mr. Renato Matosinhos completed 1-month secondments at Ti-com, an organization based in Olsztyn, Poland, that bridges academic innovation and commercial success through large-animal clinical research. The secondments were carried out in...

Congratulations to Sara Gil Cantero on successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Immune risk management of biomimetic scaffolds” on 29th July, 2025. Sara carried out her doctoral project at Medical University Vienna (MUV), Austria, supervised by Prof. Johannes Stoeckel, at the MUV Institute...