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In the old tradition, on July 17, we celebrated the end of the semester and a quite successful first half of the year through our annual beergarden visit. There have been many new exciting developments, not least the founding of our new Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics at the Depart...

From July 9-12, the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB2023) was held in Maastricht, Netherlands. The conference endorsed the importance of the integration of mechanistic experimental and computational biomechanics with upcoming data-driven modeling. The conference venue (MECC...

On Tuesday, 30th of May 2023, LKM and LTM jointly visited Erlangen’s Bergkirchweih – a traditional folk festival located at a small mountain in the north of Erlangen since 1755. Well known all around Germany and beyond, the so-called “Berg” attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Pleas...

From May 29 to June 2, 2023, the 93rd Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) took place in Dresden, Germany. Prof. Silvia Budday gave an invited lecture in the Young Researchers‘ Minisymposia 'Novel Modelling Approaches in Structural Stability'...

On 24.05.23 the monthly doctoral researchers (DR) seminar was hosted by Sophia Auer. After an interesting 30min introduction into the background and objectives of the A02, the DRs were given a guided tour of the anatomy department, including the anatomical collection of the institute. During the sem...

At the beginning of May, our group attended the CMBBE international symposium at Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology in Paris, France.  Here, we heard many inspiring talks, which showcased how computational mechanics is currently being used and could be used in the future to assist the healthcar...

Join an engineer on a fascinating journey through the intricate world of neuroanatomy. At the first EBM harmonization workshop led by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Paulsen, participants gained a deeper understanding of the brain's anatomy through a brief seminar and an assisted brain dissection.

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...