BioMAT 2027 Scope
A welcome note from the Symposium Chairs on the themes and focus of BioMAT 2027.
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to join the 9th European Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas, BioMAT 2027, taking place from 12 to 13 May 2027 in Jena, Germany.
Following the success of the previous eight BioMAT Symposia, held in Jena in 2011, in Weimar in 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019, online in 2021, and as hybrid events in 2023 and 2025, the international conference will continue its biennial tradition in the Jena-Weimar region.
BioMAT 2027 addresses the growing interest of science and industry in the creation, characterization, testing, regulation, and application of biomaterials and closely related areas. This development is driven not only by recent scientific progress, but also by new challenges in an interdisciplinary field where materials science, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine increasingly intersect. Researchers and professionals in industrial R&D and clinical environments are confronted with materials that must meet demanding performance requirements while interacting with complex biological systems.
Over the past decades, biomaterials research has seen strong growth in the USA and Asia, while Europe has developed into an increasingly dynamic and internationally visible research region in this field. The German Society for Materials Science (DGM) and its expert committee on biomaterials address these developments with BioMAT 2027 in Jena.
BioMAT 2027 will present and discuss current progress and emerging trends in the development, characterization, evaluation, regulation, application, testing, and modeling of biomaterials in basic science and industry.
Core topics
In addition, the symposium will bring together experts from related fields such as biomimetics, biomineralization, and biopolymers, creating a forum for exchange across disciplinary boundaries.
The organizers at the DGM aim to serve the European biomaterials community with a compact two-day meeting that combines high-quality scientific exchange with opportunities for discussion, networking, and collaboration in the historic city of Jena, located in the heart of Europe.
The program of BioMAT 2027 will include invited plenary lectures, oral presentations, and poster contributions. The organizers look forward to receiving numerous contributions and to welcoming the biomaterials community to Jena in 2027.
Best regards,
Dr.-Ing.
Thomas F. Keller
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY