The Consortium on Exploring Brain Mechanics met on February 9 at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, to provide a comprehensive progress update on all ongoing projects within its purview.
At the beginning of 2023, after approval by the DFG in November 2022, the CRC 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics" officially started. This report covers the very successful first year and presents the results of the joint research and interactions. Get ready for the exciting research in EBM.
In November 2023 Soheil Firooz did a research stay at the University of Cape Town, focused on finite element analysis of convection-diffusion problems. This research stay proved to be an intellectually invigorating experience. Collaborating closely with Professor Daya Reddy, a distinguished figure i...
On November 23, 2023, Tomeu Amorós (C02) and Sebastián Sepúlveda (A05) hosted the (post) doctoral researchers seminar at the Institute of Animal Physiology
On November 9th, 2023, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)", hosted an interactive workshop centered on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and its application to the study of frog brain.
ERC Synergy Grant 2023: Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Kristian Franze
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected the UNFOLD project (Unfolding the dynamic interaction between mechanical and molecular processes in brain folding) as one of the 37 beneficiaries of the Synergy Grants p...
From October 9 to 11, Nina participated at the annual GAMM Juniors Fall Meeting at ETH Zürich. The GAMM Juniors are a group of 30 young researchers with exceptional achievements in the fields of applied mathematics and mechanics (https://www.gamm-juniors.de/). The purpose of the annual meeting is to...
The 1st EBM Retreat took place from September 21st to 22nd, 2023 at the Hotel Arvena Reichsstadt in the small historic town of Bad Windsheim and provided a platform for scientific presentations primarily from doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers of the CRC 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics." The main objective of this conference was to present the current status of the 19 ongoing research projects and stimulate lively and constructive discussions to strengthen and further develop collaboration between various research projects.
On April 1st, Soheil Firooz traveled to Ankara, Turkey for a 2-month research stay at Bilkent University. The objective of this research stay was to collaborate with Prof. Ali Javili in order to develop a computational framework for the implementation of continuum-kinematics-inspired peridynamics aiming to investigate the non-local mechanical behavior of the brain tissue.
