Biointerfaces Lab

On Friday, November 22, 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Michael Christiansen from the Medical Microsystems Laboratory at ETH Zürich at Biointerfaces Lab. What an inspiring lecture! Thank you for your visit Michael! We are looking forward to deepen our collaboration and to work together on n...

On 20th of November 2024 the first "Kinderuni" took place at FAU Erlangen. We had an amazing time with the young researchers exploring the fascinating science behind "Small particles, big forces: magnetic nanomaterials". Thank you to Laura Kneppe and the team around the Kinderuni at FAU Er...

During November 11th -12th, 2024 we held our first group retreat at the Naturfreundehaus in Veilbronn. Besides exciting scientific presentations and discussions, we had an amazing time brainstorming for new project ideas and spent some fun time together during our scavenger hunt in the Leinleiter...

With our partners from University of Glasgow we published an article on "Microfabrication Technologies for Nanoinvasive and High-Resolution Magnetic Neuromodulation" in Advanced Science. The review details on working principles, technical details, coil designs, and potential future developments of t...

Our joint publication together with our colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA is out! The study titled "Magnetoelectric nanodiscs enable wireless transgene-free neuromodulation" was published on 11th of October, 2024 in Nature Nanotechnology. The scientific tea...

Prof. Matthew Panthani is currently visiting Biointerfaces Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg where he is working with Vicente María Durán Toro on design and biological testing of our magnetic nanomateirals. During his lecture on "Group IV Semicondutor Nanomaterials" he provided a profound insight into...

Today Noah Kent from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA is visiting Biointerfaces Lab. Thank you for giving us an insight into your impressive work by introducing us to "The Physics of Alternating Magnetic Field Nanotransducers" and for the great exchange and brainstorming on future ...

Biointerfaces Lab is excited to become member of the FAU Profile Center New Materials and Processes (FAU NMP): https://www.newmaterials.fau.de/2024/07/17/new-member-prof-dr-danijela-gregurec/ We are looking forward to share our expertise and infrastructure and establish new collaborations within ...

For the last two days the CROSSBRAIN General Assembly meeting took place at the University of Glasgow in the UK. A very productive meeting, where we could connect, exchange ideas, share our latest progress and plan for the upcoming months. Thank you to our partners from University of Glasgow fo...

Today Vicente Durán is presenting his work within the CROSSBRAIN project on novel smart magnetoelectric #nanomaterials at the "Cutting edge nanotechnologies" #conference hosted at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. A great event where he could connect with old and new partners from th...

Welcome Franzi! In July, 2024 Franziska Wasner started as a PhD candidate at Biointerfaces Lab. She will be working on the scientific challenges within the ERC BRAINMASTER project. We are very happy to have you on the team! #new #member #phdcandidate

We are glad to welcome our new colleague Sandra Plettl, who will support us in management and administration of our EU-projects. Welcome Sandra! #FAU #newcolleague #EUproject    

We had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Chanchai Boonla at Biointerfaces Lab. Prof. Boonla gave an insightful seminar on his work at Chulalongkorn University and we developed new ideas for future collaborative projects during the fruitful discussion! Biointerfaces lab will visit Prof. Boonla and Chu...

This week Elif Kocar (Biointerfaces Lab, FAU Erlangen) and Bilal Nizami (Tor Vergata University of Rome), both PhD students in the the BRAINSTORM project, are visiting our collaborators at University of Turin to perform ex vivio experiments with our newly designed nanoparticles in the MRI scanner...

Naside Tezcan, student at Biointerfaces Lab, has started her research stay at the University of Glasgow this week. Naside is visiting our collaborators at meLAB. The group of Professor Hadi Heidari will introduce her to microelectronics design and production in the framework of the BRAINSTORM proj...

Danijela Gregurec visiting Brussels for the EIC portfolio meeting together with our collaborators from the CROSSBRAIN project, Nicola Toschi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” | UNITOV) and Luca Berdondini (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT). The portfolio on brain tools aims to overcome curren...