Events

On 4 April 2023, project B01 (Oskar Neumann, PI: S. Budday) and Emmy-Noether research group BRAINIACS  (Nina Reiter, PI: S. Budday) conducted some preliminary experiments on pig spinal cords. The main goal was to gain a feel for producing spinal cord samples and to become familiar with the experimen...

Effective April 1, 2023, PI Silvia Budday was appointed Full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at FAU and is now heading the Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics - the new 'home' of the BRAINIACS Group. We are so happy and proud to be part of the FAU family and are l...

The team of X03 Boccaccini (DR: Markus Lorke and Sonja Kuth) visited the team of C02 Frischknecht (DR: Bartomeu Perelló Amorós) on 31.03.23 at the animal physiology labs for a lab shadowing and discussion of the planned experiments in the scope of the CRC EBM. Planned experiments will investigate th...

On 21 March 2023, project X03 (Markus Lorke and Sonja Kuth, PI: A.R. Boccaccini) and project C04 (Shanice Heidenreich, PI: A. Boßerhoff) performed their first collaborative experiments. The aim of this collaborative lab work was to familiarise ourselves with the different set-ups of experimental wor...

On March 17th, 2023, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)" held its kick-off meeting at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) in Erlangen. The meeting started with EBM spokespersons' presentations on research areas and center structure. Then, Friedrich Paulsen presented the integrated graduate program and its qualification events.

It was a great pleasure and honor to be part of the WomenInScience@TF event on March 16, 2023. The event was organized by the Women’s Representatives of FAU’s Faculty of Engineering and dealt with the exciting topic “Academia and Family” that is so relevant for all of us. The inspiring moderation by...

On March 17, 2023, the members of the new Collaborative Research Center 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)" will meet at Fraunhofer IISB to launch their programme. PIs as well as doctoral researchers and postdocs from various faculties at FAU, the University Hospital Erlangen, the Max Planck Inst...

From February 13-14, this year’s Annual Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group „Computational Biomechanics“ was held at Saarland University. We had a lot of inspiring contributions highlighting the great potential but also the current challenges in the field of computational biomechanics. A huge thanks...

How does a brain tumour actually look in real life? On 13 February 2023, Nina Reiter and Jan Hinrichsen from project A01 (PI: Silvia Budday) visited the neuropathology where they were welcomed by Lucas Hoffmann (project A02, PI: Ingmar Blümcke).  The opportunity to observe the daily process of cutt...

After we had to cancel our BRAINIACS Xmas Party on December 20 due to illness, we now celebrated the successful and eventful year 2022 during our belated Xmas Party on January 17. Mold wine, ginger bread, and Spekulatius still created a Chistmassy atmosphere. We had a lot of fun talking about academ...