Menue
- Sustainable composites based on hydrolytically active glass fibres and bio-based sizings for medical and technical applications
- Use of renewable resources for bioplastics, fibres and fibre sizings
- Embroidered Medical Textiles - Custom-made embroidered implants made of natural fibres, synthetic polymer fibres and metal wires
Current running projects:
- AiF-ZIM project (IPF, BioCer Entwicklungs-GmbH): »Development of a starch-based, load-adapted mesh implant pocket for prepectoral surgical methods in mastectomies« (BioReconstruct)
Completed projects:
- BMBF project (IPF, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, WINDnovation Engineering Solutions GmbH, cp.max Rotortechnik GmbH & Co. KG): »Bioinspired lightweight construction employing adjustable, degradable fibre-plastic composites« (bioLEIV)
- SMWK-SAB project (IPF, Charité): »Embroidery of ultra-thin titanium wires for the development of custom-made, shapeable orbital floor implants«
- DFG project (Dr.-Ing. Annette Breier / Dr.-Ing. Judith Hahn): »Tissue engineering of the anterior cruciate ligament based on resorbable, embroidered structures«
- AIF-ZUTECH LoVarMED: »Development of a simulation-aided technologie for a stress-adapted, fibre-based implant with locally adjusted and graduated stiffness«
- Thesis: »Analysing the incorporation of different biomaterials into bone using magnetic resonance imaging« (supported by doctoral grants of the European Social Funds and the Dresden University of Technology)
- MeDDrive Start: »Investigation of tissue engineered bone substitutes for alveolar cleft osteoplasty in an animal model« (leadership: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine »Carl Gustav Carus«)
- 2015: Doctoral grant of the Dresden University of Technology, scholarship program for the
promotion of early-career female scientists - 2012 – 2014: Doctoral grant of the European Social Fund
