Education Committee

Björn Busse is Full Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medical Technology at the Department of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany. He is director of a Heisenberg Research Group and the Forum Medical Technology Health in Hamburg (FMTHH), Germany. Björn has a strong interest in skeletal imaging, biomechanics and bone quality analyses. He has graduated in bioengineering and has finished his Ph.D. work with honors at the Free and Humboldt University Berlin / Charité, University Medicine Berlin, where he has focused on bone imaging and bone mineralization. In particular, he has focused on scanning/backscattered electron microscopy, microanalysis, materials testing and bone histomorphometry. His work provides a contribution to our understanding of the fracture mechanisms of bone, specifically by focussing on aspects of bone quality, such as osseous changes with skeletal aging, osteoporosis, osteoporosis treatment strategies, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, Paget’s disease of bone, etc. from both a medical and bioengineering perspective.
Björn gained further academic teaching and research experience during his post-doc research fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California, Berkeley. Björn has published more than 100 papers in highly visible journals and was awarded with several research prizes including the ‘John Haddad Young Investigator Award’ of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research and the ‘von Recklinghausen-Prize’ of the German Society of Endocrinology.