Biointerfaces Lab

We are excited to share our latest publication: "Biocompatible PVDF Nanofibers with Embedded Magnetite Nanodiscs Enable Wireless Magnetoelectric Stimulation in Premotor Cortex" The collaborative study between FAU and Maastricht University shows the first soft, biocompatible magnetoelectric fiber co...

Druing the first week of July, Danijela Gregurec was lecturing at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" in Varenna, Italy. The long standing tradition of this summer school, which represents the most significant cultural activity of the Italian Physical Society, dates back to 1953. I...

This week Franziska Wasner is presenting her work on "Advanced anisotropic magnetite nanoparticles as multifunctional agents for targeting and recording of cellular activity with high spatio-temporal precision." at the European School on Magnetism 2025 in Liège, Belgium. We’re excited to learn ab...

During the past days Eduart Gutiérrez from Soft Matter Nanotechnology Lab at CIC biomaGUNE joined us as a guest scientist at Biointerfaces Lab. He and Vicente María Durán Toro joined efforts to test novel material in the CROSSBRAIN project and explore innovative solutions. Thank you for your visi...

We had the pleasure of contributing to #Kinderuni 2025 in Nürnberg, where we introduced the young future scientists to the basics of magnetic forces and took a tour through real-life applications — from everyday magnets to cutting-edge magnetic nanomaterials used in neuromodulation. We are alrea...

We were delighted to once again welcome our esteemed collaborator, Dr. Sergio Moya, Group Leader of the Soft Matter Nanotechnology Lab at CICbiomaGUNE in San Sebastián, Spain. During his visit, we enjoyed a highly productive week filled with collaborative writing, idea exchange, and forward-looki...

Yesterday we had the pleasure to host the final theses presentations by Tamara Kollmann and Patrizia Havelka, both graduating from Food Chemistry at FAU. It was a pleasure to have them join our lab for their final thesis work! Both obtained valuable results from their research in "Toxicity and Bi...

This week Uzair Ali from Biointerfaces Lab is presenting his latest research, conducted in the framework of the BRAINSTORM project, at the 31st Science Cluster conference, "Genomic Mechanisms of Disease" in Copenhagen. A truly great event with inspiring science, people, and venue! Thank you to th...

Today, Danijela Gregurec was invited to speak at the Uniklinikum (UK) Erlangen’s internal seminar series, where she delivered a well-received talk titled "New Nanomaterials in Brain Research." The seminar sparked engaging discussions and valuable knowledge exchange, followed by productive networking...

We had the pleasure to have an incredibly insightful training on electromagnetic systems and the characterization of miniaturized electromagnets at Biointerfaces Lab Michael Christiansen from ETH Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ) and Tomislav Markovic from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, U...

This week our Postdoctoral Researcher Uzair Ali is presenting his work: "Bioactive compounds promote lipid catabolism and thermogenic signaling in human adipocytes involving TRPV1" at the International Conference on Brown and Beige Fat - Organ Crosstalk, Signaling and Energetics. #conference #fat...

On 10-13th of March, 2025 the CROSSBRAIN and BRAINSTORM general assembly meetings took place on Tenerife, Spain. Both consortia had vivid discussions around the partner presentations and productive sessions during the joint workshop. Based  on the productive past months we established clear roadm...

We are excited to share that Danijela Gregurec will give a Neuro-X Seminar talk on Monday 10th of March, 2025 at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland. Her seminar "Wireless neural Interfaces: magnetically driven nanomaterials for neuromodulation" will give a conclusive o...

We are happy to welcome our new colleague Jiajian Fan. She will work with us as a technical assistant in the laboratories for cell culture and biological engineering. Welcome Jiajian! #FAU #newcolleague #biotech #cellbiology    

We are looking back on an inspiring and productive two-week research stay of Adam Armada-Moreira from Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia at Biointerfaces Lab as part of the CROSSBRAIN project! His expertise and collaboration with Vicente María Durán Toro have led to exciting new insigh...

On Friday, November 22, 2024 we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Michael Christiansen from the Medical Microsystems Laboratory at ETH Zürich at Biointerfaces Lab. What an inspiring lecture! Thank you for your visit Michael! We are looking forward to deepen our collaboration and to work together on n...

On 20th of November 2024 the first "Kinderuni" took place at FAU Erlangen. We had an amazing time with the young researchers exploring the fascinating science behind "Small particles, big forces: magnetic nanomaterials". Thank you to Laura Kneppe and the team around the Kinderuni at FAU Er...

During November 11th -12th, 2024 we held our first group retreat at the Naturfreundehaus in Veilbronn. Besides exciting scientific presentations and discussions, we had an amazing time brainstorming for new project ideas and spent some fun time together during our scavenger hunt in the Leinleiter...

With our partners from University of Glasgow we published an article on "Microfabrication Technologies for Nanoinvasive and High-Resolution Magnetic Neuromodulation" in Advanced Science. The review details on working principles, technical details, coil designs, and potential future developments of t...

Our joint publication together with our colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA is out! The study titled "Magnetoelectric nanodiscs enable wireless transgene-free neuromodulation" was published on 11th of October, 2024 in Nature Nanotechnology. The scientific tea...

Prof. Matthew Panthani is currently visiting Biointerfaces Lab at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg where he is working with Vicente María Durán Toro on design and biological testing of our magnetic nanomateirals. During his lecture on "Group IV Semicondutor Nanomaterials" he provided a profound insight into...

Today Noah Kent from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA is visiting Biointerfaces Lab. Thank you for giving us an insight into your impressive work by introducing us to "The Physics of Alternating Magnetic Field Nanotransducers" and for the great exchange and brainstorming on future ...

Biointerfaces Lab is excited to become member of the FAU Profile Center New Materials and Processes (FAU NMP): https://www.newmaterials.fau.de/2024/07/17/new-member-prof-dr-danijela-gregurec/ We are looking forward to share our expertise and infrastructure and establish new collaborations within ...

For the last two days the CROSSBRAIN General Assembly meeting took place at the University of Glasgow in the UK. A very productive meeting, where we could connect, exchange ideas, share our latest progress and plan for the upcoming months. Thank you to our partners from University of Glasgow fo...

Today Vicente Durán is presenting his work within the CROSSBRAIN project on novel smart magnetoelectric #nanomaterials at the "Cutting edge nanotechnologies" #conference hosted at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. A great event where he could connect with old and new partners from th...

Welcome Franzi! In July, 2024 Franziska Wasner started as a PhD candidate at Biointerfaces Lab. She will be working on the scientific challenges within the ERC BRAINMASTER project. We are very happy to have you on the team! #new #member #phdcandidate

We are glad to welcome our new colleague Sandra Plettl, who will support us in management and administration of our EU-projects. Welcome Sandra! #FAU #newcolleague #EUproject    

We had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Chanchai Boonla at Biointerfaces Lab. Prof. Boonla gave an insightful seminar on his work at Chulalongkorn University and we developed new ideas for future collaborative projects during the fruitful discussion! Biointerfaces lab will visit Prof. Boonla and Chu...

This week Elif Kocar (Biointerfaces Lab, FAU Erlangen) and Bilal Nizami (Tor Vergata University of Rome), both PhD students in the the BRAINSTORM project, are visiting our collaborators at University of Turin to perform ex vivio experiments with our newly designed nanoparticles in the MRI scanner...

Naside Tezcan, student at Biointerfaces Lab, has started her research stay at the University of Glasgow this week. Naside is visiting our collaborators at meLAB. The group of Professor Hadi Heidari will introduce her to microelectronics design and production in the framework of the BRAINSTORM proj...

Danijela Gregurec visiting Brussels for the EIC portfolio meeting together with our collaborators from the CROSSBRAIN project, Nicola Toschi (University of Rome “Tor Vergata” | UNITOV) and Luca Berdondini (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT). The portfolio on brain tools aims to overcome curren...