Group Leader of the Mechanobiology group in the Biomaterials Department at the MPIKG.
The aim of our research group is to provide a quantitative description of how mechanical forces influence structural adaptation in biological materials. Our main focus is on bone. Different processes acting on very different length and time scales result in changes of the bone structure. Bone remodeling allows a replacement of bone on a microscopic scale, bone mineralization stiffens the material by incorporation of nanoscopic mineral particles, bone healing enables a restoration of the mechanical function of bone on a macroscopic scale after fracture.
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