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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...

On November 30, we had the great honor to welcome the Legato team from the Université du Luxembourg. Many thanks to the Stéphanes (Stéphane Bordas and Stéphane Urcun) for giving such an impressive and comprehensive talk. It is not common that not only the scientific work is perfectly complementary b...

From September 6-9 the Virtual Physiological Human conference VPH 2022 was held in beautiful Porto, Portugal. It was a great opportunity to see how research results can finally be applied in the clinic or industry and to get in contact with new exciting potential future collaborators. It was an hon...

After two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 92nd annual meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics was held in person again August 15-19 in Aachen. It was great to see so many familiar faces and to join a conference with almost the entire BRAINIACS team. We orga...