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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been reelected for a second period of 4 years as member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). In the new Council, Prof. Boccaccini will become vice-president of the Society for the period 2019-2023. The Europea...

Thomas Kreller, PhD student at the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), received this year's prize for the Best Masters Thesis in Biomaterials, which is awarded annually by the German Society for Biomaterials (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomaterialien e.V., DGBM). The thesis with the title "Hierarchic...

Prof. Boccaccini (head of the Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) attended the Annual Conference "Sand to Splendour" of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) in Cambridge, UK, where he was awarded the Fellowship of SGT. Prof. Boccaccini presented the invited lecture "Bioactive glasses: from bone rege...

Wer Professor Erik Bitzek Detailverliebtheit unterstellt, liegt möglicherweise gar nicht so falsch: Der Werkstoffwissenschaftler von der FAU hat sich in seinem Beruf den Atomen verschrieben – und den Kräften, die zwischen ihnen wirken. Wir haben mit Professor Bitzek über seine Arbeit und das interna...

Prof. Dr. Peter Wellmann has been elected on May 30th, 2019, as the next president of the European Materials Research Society EMRS. His mandate will start on September 1st, 2019.

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), was elevated to Fellow of the European Ceramic Society and received the fellowship certificate at the XVI Conference of the European Ceramic Society (ECERS) held in Turin, Itay, from June 17th to 20th 2019. ECERS fellows are p...

June's Topic of the Month comes from the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion (WW4)

The special symposium of “Correlative and in situ Microscopy in Materials Research”, held during 1-4.April, was co-organized by the head of the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (WW 9) Prof. Dr. Erdmann Spiecker and Dr. Johannes Will under financial support from the DFG via the research training unit GRK 1896: “In situ Microscopy with Electrons, X-rays and Scanning Probes”.

First joint meeting of DGG and French Union for Science and Glass Technology (USTV)

May's Topic of the Month comes from the Institute of General Materials Properties (WW1)