On the 29th of April 2019 the traditional international dinner of the elite master’s programme Advanced Materials and Processes took place. All MAP students and lecturers were invited to celebrate this very special event. Also, students interested in choosing MAP as future master’s programme were we... Continue

Every year, MAP students have the opportunity to prepare for their Focal Subject "Biomaterials and Bioprocesses" by joining a special Bio precourse in Bayreuth. Sharmin Zzaman Khan Antara from the MAP class 2018 reports on the latest Bio precourse: MAP 2018 spent two weeks in Bayreuth from April ... Continue

Alice Bellettini, second semester MAP student, reports on the MAP excursion to Zollhof - Tech Incubator, which is a FAU linked institute on startups, on 4 February 2019: "From the very beginning of the trip we were welcomed with enthusiasm and a desire to make us familiarise with the environment.... Continue

MAP alumnus, Mani Diba, has received the Rubicon fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to perform postdoctroral research in the group of Prof. Antonios Mikos at Rice University (USA). Mani graduated from MAP in 2012, after studying the focal subjects of biomat... Continue

Optical fibers, a widely employed tool for the transmission of light, are commonly made of rigid materials such as glass or thermoplastics. The mechanical properties of these materials prohibit the use of optical fibers in scenarios where large deformations are expected, such as wearable functional ... Continue

On 30 January 2019, Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) students and lecturers celebrated two important yearly events: the poster presentation session and the graduation ceremony of 15 students. The events took place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB in... Continue

Complexity in nature, whether in chlorophyll or in living organisms, often results from self-assembly and is considered particularly robust. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practical relevance, and are found in atomic nuclei, nano particles or viruses. An interdisciplin... Continue

Ziyu Liao performed her miniproject in WS 17/18 (November 2017 – March 2018) at the Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON), Department of Otorhinolaryngology, at the Universtätsklinikum Erlangen. SEON works on the development of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) f... Continue

Not one, but two MAP lecturers were awarded the Teaching Award 2018 of the Faculty of Engineering: Prof. Carolin Körner (Chair of Materials Science and Engineering for Metals) and Dr.-Ing. Joachim Kaschta (Institute of Polymer Materials). Congratulations to both of them! We are glad that these lectu... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials), Prof. Christoph Brabec (Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology) and Prof. Patrik Schmuki (Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion), members of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, have been listed in the pres... Continue