Events

At the end of the first EBM year 2023, Jan Hinrichsen and Nina Reiter (subproject A01) had the opportunity to stay in the Living Matter Lab of EBM Mercator Fellow Ellen Kuhl at Stanford University in California, USA.

On November 23, 2023, Tomeu Amorós (C02) and Sebastián Sepúlveda (A05) hosted the (post) doctoral researchers seminar at the Institute of Animal Physiology

On November 9th, 2023, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)", hosted an interactive workshop centered on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and its application to the study of frog brain.

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...

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...