Events

From August 30 to September 3, Saeed Zarzor and Nina Reiter participated in the 9th Summer School on Biomechanics and Modelling in Mechanobiology held by Gerhard A. Holzapfel and Ray W. Ogden in Graz, Austria. After more than one year without in-person meetings, the summer school offered a great o...

After a long time of Zoom meetings only, we finally had the chance to meet in person again. We shot our first lab movie, produced by our talented Hiwi Biswaroop Roy, which turned out great and was a lot of fun. Later, we went to the Beergarden to celebrate the achievements of the year so far and e...

We are honored to be part of the television broadcast ‘Wir sind #FAU – Innovation leben’ (We are #FAU – Bringing innovation to life), which was dedicated to alumni celebrating the anniversary of completing their doctoral degree and focused on outstanding personalities and alumni from research, indus...

Beginning of June, the 5th Soft Tissue Modelling Workshop was held online by the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, focusing on state-of-the-art developments and challenges in the field of soft tissue modeling. BRAINIACS Master student Alex presented our recent work on "Poro-viscoelastic effects...

On May 4, 2021, four female and six male researchers received the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2021, the top award for early career investigators in Germany. Congratulations to all awardees. We are deeply honored that the research by the BRAINIACS group was acknowledged through such an exceptional a...

Last week, the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, the GAMM 2020@21, was held virtually with about 1000 participants by the great organizing team from Kassel. We are deeply honored and grateful for receiving the Richard-von-Mises-Preis for outstandin...

Last week, we participated in the virtual joined World Congress of Computational Mechanics and ECCOMAS Congress, which would originally have taken place in Paris, June 2020. It was an impressive event with more than 3000 participants from more than 30 countries. The organizors did a great job in s...

A special year is coming to an end and we met online to have some Glühwein and cookies together and to get into festive mood. We may look back at an eventful and productive year, despite the circumstances. Still it has challenged all of us - in one way or another - and it was great to exchange our i...

From September 21-22, 2020, we organized the annual meeting of the GAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) expert committee "Computational Biomechanics", which was held as a hybrid workshop via Zoom and in presence. The meeting took place at Kloster Banz in the beautiful landscape...

At the end of a special semester under very special circumstances, we met at the beer garden to exchange experiences, thoughts, and ideas. Of course, we made sure to strictly follow the hygiene regulations and act responsibly to not put anyone at risk. It was great to meet in person and to share tho...