Group

• Senior Scientists
• Postdocs and PhD-Students
• Technical Staff
• Alumni

Research Interests

• protein interactions with ceramic particles
• nano- and micro porous scaffolds for bioengineering applications
• surface functionalized ceramics for biosensor and bioreactor developments
• antibacterial ceramic surfaces
• biomimetic ceramic - organic composites
• advanced ceramic composites

Coordination of Major Research Grants

• DFG Research Training Group “MIMENIMA” (2013 – 2022, 9.5 Mio€)
• BMBF VIP “ResorbBoneScrew” (2013 – 2015, 1 Mio€)
• Bremen Federal State’s priority research programme ‘Ceramic Interface Technology (2010-2019, 3 Mio€)
• ERC Grant “BioCerEng” (2009-2013, 1.5 Mio€)

Education

Positions and Work Experience

Awards and Fellowships

Other Appointments

Teaching

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Resume

Kurosch Rezwan is a materials scientist and engineer who was born in 1975 and raised in Switzerland, close to the city of Lucerne. He earned his Materials Science and Engineering degree from the ETH Zurich in 2001. His diploma thesis he carried out at the University of California Santa Barbara in the Advanced Ceramics research group of Prof. Fred F. Lange, focusing on nano particle coatings of oxide fibers. Shortly after graduation, he joined Prof. Ludwig J. Gauckler's Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials research group at the ETH Zurich where he investigated in his PhD studies protein adsorption onto colloidal oxide particles in aqueous suspensions. His PhD thesis entitled "Protein treated aqueous colloidal oxide particle suspensions: driving forces for protein adsorption and conformational changes" won the ETH HILTI award 2005 for innovation and excellence in science and engineering. During 2005 he was a visiting research fellow at the Materials Department of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, where he worked on scaffolds for tissue engineering and on drug release systems. In 2006, with 30 years, he joined the Department of Process and Industrial Engineering at the University of Bremen as an Assistant Professor for Bioceramics with tenure track where he started establishing the Bioceramics research group. In 2008 he was awarded the Starting Independent Research Grant by the European Research Council (1.5 Mio Euros), where 300 young scientists out of more than 9000 applicants were distinguished. In 2009 he became Professor of Advanced Ceramics. In 2010 he received the Fritz-Behrens Award for outstanding scientists and in 2011 the most cited scientific article award in the Biomaterials field for the years 2006 - 2010. Within the same year, he received the Wessels award for excellent and innovative industrial cooperation. In 2012 he and his colleagues were successful with the DFG-Research Training Group proposal (Graduiertenkolleg) “MIMENIMA” as the spokesperson including eight research institutes which started in 1st of October 2013. The beyond the state research idea of “MIMENIMA” is the conditioning of novel porous ceramic structures and their surfaces for applications in important emerging fields of energy, environmental, chemical processing and space technology with a total funding of 9.5 Mio Euros.

Kurosch Rezwan serves as referee for the European Research Council, the German Research Foundation, the German Parliament and for several international journals. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Biomaterials Applications and member of several Materials Science Societies. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.