Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, FIMMM <br>
Department of Materials  
<br>Imperial College London 
<br>Prince Consort Road 
<br>London SW7 2BP, UK 
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<br>Tel.: +44 207 594 6731, Fax: +44 207 594 6757 
<br>Email: a.boccaccini@imperial.ac.uk 
<br>Internet: www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.boccaccini 
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<br>Aldo R. Boccaccini holds an MSc (Nuclear Engineering) from Instituto Balseiro (Argentina), PhD (Dr-Ing.) from Aachen 
University of Technology (Germany) and Habilitation from Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany). Before joining 
Imperial College in 2000, he had appointments at the University of Birmingham (UK), the University of California at San 
Diego (USA) and the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. The research activities of Dr. Boccaccini are in the 
broad area of glasses, ceramics and polymer/glass composites for structural, biomedical and/or functional applications. He 
is the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific papers and several book chapters. He leads a multidisciplinary 
research group comprising four post-doctoral researchers and fifteen PhD students as well as several visiting students and 
academics. In the last few years he has developed extensive research activities in the area of scaffold materials for tissue 
engineering applications and has pioneered the development of novel highly porous bioactive and degradable composite 
scaffolds. Other area of his research involves the development of sustainable material concepts and recycling strategies 
based on powder technology and sintering for combustion (silicate) waste. In separate developments Dr Boccaccini's 
group is pioneering the use of electrophoretic deposition techniques to manipulate materials in the nanoscale, in particular 
carbon nanotubes and ceramic nanoparticles for biomedical and functional coatings. Boccaccini's recent achievements in the 
area of materials science have been recognized with the award of the Materials Science and Technology Prize 2003 by the 
Federation of European Materials Society (FEMS) and the Verulam Medal and Prize 2003 of the Institute of Materials 
Minerals and Mining (IOM3). Recently, he has been elected Fellow of the IOM3. In addition to his research and teaching 
activities, Dr Boccaccini is member of the Executive Board of the EU Network of Excellence "Knowledge Based 
Multifunctional Materials for Advanced Applications", which comprises 37 research institutions across Europe, in which he 
leads the research project "Nanocermets". Aldo has served as chairman of several international conferences, and will be the 
Co-chairman of the next Conference on Syntactic and Composite Foams, Davos, Switzerland (2007) and Chairman of the 
3rd Int. Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition, to be held in the US in 2008. He has also closed contact with several 
institutions in Argentina, including Centro Atomico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 
Universidad Technologica Nacional, Fac. Regional San Rafael and Fac. Regional San Nicolas, Universidad Nacional del 
Comahue and CNEA-Salta. Projects involving institutions in Argentina are listed below. Aldo has been the chairman of 
APARU since its creation in 2003.
<br>Recent publications
<br>Misra, S. K., Valappil, S. P., Roy, I., Boccaccini, A. R., Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)/inorganic phase composites for tissue engineering applications, Biomacromolecules 7 (2006) 2249-2258.
<br>Boccaccini, A. R., Roether, J. A., Thomas, B. J. C., Shaffer, M. S. P., Chavez, E., Stoll, E., Minay, E. J., The electrophoretic deposition of inorganic nanoscaled materials. A Review, J. Ceram. Soc. Japan 114 (2006) 1-14.

<br>Chen, Q. Z., Thompson, I. D., Boccaccini, A. R., 45S5 Bioglass®-derived glass-ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, Biomaterials 27 (2006) 2414-2425.
<br>Current Projects with Argentina
<br>EU funded ADEMAT network on “Advanced Materials” involving several universities in Latin America and Europe.
<br>Research project on “Ceramic Coatings by Electrophoretic Deposition”, in collaboration with: UNC- Facultad de Ciencias 
Aplicadas a la Industria, San Rafael, Mza., Instituto Balseiro, Centro Atomico Bariloche y Universidad Tecnologica 
Nacional, FR San Nicolas.
<br>Royal Society funded international joint project with CNEA-Salta on “Boron containing bioactive glasses for bone tissue 
engineering”