Autor: Saverio Affatato

Fatima Zivic is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia, where she teaches courses on: Biomaterials, Surface Modification Technologies, Metrology and Quality Control. Her research explores novel biomaterial structures and material characterisation (mechanical and structural properties).    Saverio Affatato is a Medical Physicist at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (IOR) (www.ior.it/tecno). In addition, he is the Head of the «Wear Characterization of Joint Prostheses Research Unit» of the IOR’s Medical Technology Laboratory. rial, sans-s  Miroslav Trajanovic is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia. He has more than 35 years of experience in the application of ICT in mechanical engineering and medicine and more than 250 published papers to his credit. He has broad expertise in the modeling of biomaterials’ structural design (scaffold structures, bone grafts). In addition, he is the Serbian coordinator of the European EURAXESS services network.   Matthias Schnabelrauch received his Ph D in Polymer Chemistry from Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena. After postdoctoral positions at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, and the Hans- Knöll-Institute, Jena, he currently heads the Biomaterials Department of INNOVENT e. V., Jena, Germany. His main research interests are in the synthesis, characterisation and application of degradable biomaterials. He is the author/co-author of more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 50 patent applications.   Nenad Grujovic is a Full Professor and Head of the Center for Information Technologies (http://cit.fink.rs) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. His research focuses on custom-made medical implants, tissue engineering, 3D printing and FEM modeling. He has led two clinical projects on custom-made implants used i ont> of Ti-reinforced PMMA artificial ribs (in 2017) made using 3D printing.   Kwang Leong Choy is a Professor of Materials Discovery at University College London and Director of the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-for-materials-discovery). She has authored over 220 peer-reviewed publications, including 3 books, and holds 20 patents on nanomaterials, thin films and coatings for structural, functional and biomedical applications.