Bone Abstracts

Biographical Details

Björn Busse

Björn Busse is currently head of a ‘Emmy Noether Research Group’ (eq. Assistant Professor) which is a prestigious 5 year-program run by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The group of Björn is hosted by the Department of Osteology and Biomechanics at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. Björn has finished his PhD work (Free and Humboldt University Berlin, 2006-2009) with honors, where he has focused on research regarding bone biomechanics and bone mineralization. In particular, he has developed strong skills in scanning and backscattered electron microscopy, microanalysis, image analysis, materials testing and bone histomorphometry. Björn’s work provides a contribution to our understanding on the fracture of bone, specifically by focusing on aspects of bone quality, such as structural and compositional osseous changes with aging, osteoporosis, osteoporosis treatment, Paget’s disease of bone, etc. from both a medical and engineering perspective.