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In autumn 2021, FAU has started the new event series #WISSENWOLLEN, where scientists present their current projects and research results in a generally understandable way and respond to questions from the audience. On December 22, just before Christmas, PI Silvia Budday had the pleasure to talk abo...

On December 14, we had our virtual Christmas Party in Zoom and tried to create a festive atmosphere. Although we had very much hoped to be able to celebrate in person this year, we made the best out of the current situation. With a Christmas Quiz, we made ourselves familiar with different Christmas ...

On November 4, 2021, we celebrated the 278th birthday of FAU. Due to the pandemic, the celebration was realized as a television broadcast with a lot of exciting contributions and guests. Our president, Joachim Hornegger, gave an inspiring overview on what has happended during the past year with spec...

In September 2021, we started a new tradition and decided to meet in a restaurant for lunch every second week - whenever the current restrictions and regulations allow us to. In a time, when we often work from home, this gives us the opportunity to always stay in close contact, exchange our newest ...

From September 7-9, we participated in the 17th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, which was originally planned to take place in Bonn, Germany, but was now held online due to the current Covid-19 situation. BRAINIACS PhD students Nina Reiter an...

From August 30 to September 3, Saeed Zarzor and Nina Reiter participated in the 9th Summer School on Biomechanics and Modelling in Mechanobiology held by Gerhard A. Holzapfel and Ray W. Ogden in Graz, Austria. After more than one year without in-person meetings, the summer school offered a great op...

After a long time of Zoom meetings only, we finally had the chance to meet in person again. We shot our first lab movie, produced by our talented Hiwi Biswaroop Roy, which turned out great and was a lot of fun. Later, we went to the Beergarden to celebrate the achievements of the year so far and en...

We are honored to be part of the television broadcast ‘Wir sind #FAU – Innovation leben’ (We are #FAU – Bringing innovation to life), which was dedicated to alumni celebrating the anniversary of completing their doctoral degree and focused on outstanding personalities and alumni from research, indus...

Beginning of June, the 5th Soft Tissue Modelling Workshop was held online by the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, focusing on state-of-the-art developments and challenges in the field of soft tissue modeling. BRAINIACS Master student Alex presented our recent work on "Poro-viscoelastic effects ...

On May 4, 2021, four female and six male researchers received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2021, the top award for early career investigators in Germany. Congratulations to all awardees. We are deeply honored that the research by the BRAINIACS group was acknowledged through such an exceptional aw...