Year: 2023

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...