October 2022 - Presentation of the OASIS project, in which we have developed bio-inspired designs for different areas (Link to the Video)
September 2022 - AWI-Spin off Synera GmbH receives 14.5 million euros for the digitalization of engineering knowledge
May 2022 - Bionic Girder by Dr. Simone Andresen is presented in the DESY magazine "femto" ("Vorbild Strahlentierchen" - pages 38 - 42 only in german available)
20. to 24.04.2022 - Dr. Christian Hamm is member of the jury sustainability at the 7 th Filmfest Bremen
23.04.2022 - Vernissage "Wasserwelt", Talk with Dr. Christian Hamm at the opening of the exhibition at 6 p.m.
23.03.2023 - G7 Workshop on Resource Efficiency and the Circular Economy, Discussion with Dr Hamm, organised by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUV) and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK)
10.06.2021 - Online Networking event of OASIS second Open Call Meet us at an interactive networking event to get in touch with us and other service providers of the project. Get information about the second open call and see how you can be part of it.
27.05.2021 - WebinarDesign for AM: What is the future of products? Dr. Christian Hamm will give a talk about the following topic: 11:45 - 12:30 "Potential of Additive Manufacturing to Realize High-Performance Biomimetic Design Solutions at Different Scales"
04.03.2021 - Interview by Christian in magazine Leichtbauwelt (in german) In the series "Heads of the Lightweight Construction World", the magazine Leichtbauwelt - Inspiration für Ihren Fortschritt im Leichtbau introduces people working in key positions in various industries and functions in lightweight construction. In the current issue, Dr. Christian Hamm is the interview partner
10.01.2021 - Conference presentation at ICVP 2021 (14th - 15th January 2021) -"Shape Adaptation of 1D, 2D, and 3D Structures to Increase the Eigenfrequencies" (S. Andresen, S. K. Linnemann, L. M. Lottes, O. Savysko, R. Kienzler), International Conference on Vibration Problems
02.01.2021 - New Publication -Andresen S. (2021): Impact of Bio-inspired Structural Irregularities on Plate Eigenfrequencies. In: Sapountzakis E.J., Banerjee M., Biswas P., Inan E. (eds) Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore.
02.02.2021 - Student from France starts his master thesis in our group - Landry, mechanical engineering student at the Ecole Nationale d'Ingènieurs de Metz is part of our team for the next months. As part of his master's thesis, he is studying lightweight structures and their use in prosthetics.
01.02.2021 - Welcome Paula and Selina - From now on we are happy to welcome two new members in our team. Paula will support us in the areas of basic research/biology and microscopy, while Selina will support our engineers and investigate the connection between mechanics and aesthetics.
27.01.2021 - New entries on our project page - You can now find information about our two new projects Form and Function and FIONA on our project page. While Form and Function is about the investigation of the structural performance of phytoplankton morphologies, FIONA is about bionic structures and the use of anisotropic materials in 3D printing.
09.12.2021 - WebinarUse ELISE in Applied Research:Nils Kaiser, Marvin Frank (ELISE) and Ignacio Laraudogoitia (UPV/EHU) have talked about the possibilities of the open-engineering platform ELISE in an ELISE webinar and have presented the democase "BioFly", a recent example from the OASIS project. The online recording is available here.
28.10.2021 - Publication: S. Andresen, N. Meyners, D. Thoden (2021) Innovative and Biologically Inspired PETRA IV Girder Design. Proceedings of the 11th Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation (MEDSI) Conference (Chicago, USA), JACoW Publishing
28.10.2021 -Talk at the accelerator seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the title "Impact of bio-inspired structures on the vibration properties: magnet-girder structures as a case study“ (S. Andresen)
22.09.2021 - Network meeting with the Maritime Cluster Northern Germany
28.06.2020 - LightCon Preview Week from 22.06. to 26.06.2020 there was a live webinar every day. Christian Hamm held his webinar on "Structure, Material, Software: The Future of Bioinspired Lightweight Design" on 24.04.2020