Projekte

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...

  Congratulations to Florencia Diaz for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Novel porous natural-origin polymeric patches for rotator cuff tendon repair” on 5th May, 2025. Florencia carried out her doctoral project in our Institute, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini in...

At the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), held on 26th February 2025 in presence in Brussels and online, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was reelected coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmi...

The first research in progress meeting of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue) in 2025 was organised by Dr. Irem Unalan and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini at the Institute of Biomaterials, FAU. It took place on 25th February with participation of all members of the Resea...

During the visit of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Zoya Hadzhieva to the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), an important meeting with members of the FunGlass Department of Biomaterials, led by Dr. Martin  Michálek, was organized on 19th February 2025 with the partic...

The Review Meeting of the FunGlass  H2020 EU Teaming project (grant agreement Nº739566) was held at University of Trencin, Slovakia, on 17-19th February 2025, chaired by the director of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass), Prof. Dušan Galusek. The meeting was attend...

Co-organised by Dr. Martin Michálek  (Head of Biomaterials Department, FunGlass Center, Trencin, Slovakia) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, the 2nd Biomaterials Research Day of the Department of Biomaterials at FunGlass Center was held on 12th February 2025 in hybrid form. This scientific symposium inc...

The Grand Opening of the new building and premises of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (BBCE) (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 857287) in Riga, Latvia, took place on 20th January 2025. The building is placed in the Riga Technical University (RTU) student campus in Ķīpsala. This modern b...