Events

From September 21-22, 2020, we organized the annual meeting of the GAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) expert committee "Computational Biomechanics", which was held as a hybrid workshop via Zoom and in presence. The meeting took place at Kloster Banz in the beautiful landscape...

At the end of a special semester under very special circumstances, we met at the beer garden to exchange experiences, thoughts, and ideas. Of course, we made sure to strictly follow the hygiene regulations and act responsibly to not put anyone at risk. It was great to meet in person and to share tho...

Although the famous Bergkirchweih in Erlangen had to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we had our private celebration over Zoom. The special Zoom-Background by the FAU immediately created the appropriate atmosphere and Alex definitely won the 'Costume Contest'. We had a great afternoon talking about a l...

Proud of the BRAINIACS team, who has even increased productivity during these difficult times. We try to stay home but still keep everything going. Many thanks to all members of the team fo their enthusiastic engagement. Stay healthy!

On 12th of March we had our BRAINIACS meeting under special circumstances. Despite disinfecting agent and social distancing, everyone actively presented the progress of their individual projects. We had inspiring discussions on future steps. It is great to see how all BRAINIACS members support each ...

On 14th of February, Silvia Budday was a referee at the PhD defence of Dr. Annaclaudia Montanino from the Division of Neuronic Engineering at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. Congratulations to Annaclaudia for a persuasive performance and a great thesis with the title "Definition of Axonal Injury Toleranc...

On December 13, we had our 2nd BRAINIACS meeting and Christmas party. It was a great platform to practice student seminar presentations, and to exchange our newest findings, challenges, and perspectives in a warm Christmassy atmosphere. Thanks to everyone for being such a great team and for your gr...

On 12th of December, Dr. Thomas Boudou from the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, visited our group. He gave an inspiring talk within the seminar series of the Emerging Fields Initiative project 'Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Understanding Complex Tissue...

End of November Alina Weizel from the University of Rostock, who is working on modeling the electrical and mechanical stimulation of hyaline cartilage, visited our lab. It is an exciting collaboration, which allows us to apply our holistic research approach, where we closely combine experiments, mod...

From 18th until 21st of November we visited the Institute of Biomechanics at Graz University of Technology led by Prof. Gerhard A. Holzapfel. The PhD student David Böhringer within the EFI project "TissueBiomech" hast started to test collagen-based hydrogels under multiple loading conditions using ...