Year: 2023

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 Structur...

At the beginning of March, 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 healt...

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...

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 project is closely related to the BRAINIACS research and we will continuously...

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...

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...

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...