Bioactive Materials welcomes new Associate Editor: Aldo R. Boccaccini

We would like to welcome our new Associate Editor: Aldo R. Boccaccini.

Aldo R. Boccaccini is Professor of Materials Science (Biomaterials) and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London, UK, and RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He has an Engineering degree from Instituto Balseiro, Argentina (1987) and a Doctorate in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from RWTH Aachen University, Germany (1994). He had post-doctoral appointments at University of Birmingham, UK (1994-1996), and at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1996-1997).

The research activities of Prof. Boccaccini are in the field of ceramics, glasses and composites for biomedical, functional and/or structural applications with focus on bioactive materials, scaffolds for tissue engineering, nanomaterials for drug delivery, biofabrication and antibacterial coatings. He has been a visiting professor at different universities around the world and has given more than 150 presentations at international conferences (as keynote, invited and plenary speaker). Boccaccini has published more than 1000 scientific papers and 25 book chapters. He has co-edited 8 books His work has been cited more than 75,000 times (h-index = 119, Scopus®, h-index = 139, Google Scholar®) and he was included in the “Highly Cited Researchers” lists in 2014 and 2018 (Clarivate Analytics). He is listed also as one of the most cited researchers in the world according to the latest edition of the Stanford List of Highly Cited Researchers published in 2023 (Version 6), appearing in the top 50 list in the subject “Materials”.  He was the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Materials Letters for 14 years (2010-2023) and currently holds the position of Emeritus Editor-in-Chief. In June 2024, he was appointed Editor of the high IF journal Progress in Materials Science (Elsevier).

Boccaccini is a Fellow of four major materials science/technology societies, namely Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK), American Ceramic Society, European Ceramic Society and Society of Glass Technology. Boccaccini currently serves as the president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) having been an elected member of the Board of FEMS since 2017 representing the German Materials Society (DGM). He has received multiple awards and honors, including the Materials Prize of the German Materials Society (2015).

Boccaccini is also an elected member of the World Academy of Ceramics, the National Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Germany (acatech) and fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurAsc). In 2022, he was conferred the degree of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. He was member of the Council of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) for 8 years (2015-2023), serving as ESB vice-president in the period 2020-2023. Since 2022 he has been a member of the Board of the Bioceramics Network of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS). Prof. Boccaccini was founding member (2009) and the scientific coordinator of the Network of Argentinean Scientists in Germany (RCAA) in the period 2016-2023. In 2023, he was elected Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and in March 2024 he was inducted to the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) in the USA. This recognition, which represents the top two percent of engineers in medical and biological fields, acknowledges Boccaccini’s significant contributions to bioactive materials design for regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and 3D bioprinting.