On 21 June 2019, a Proton M rocket will be launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome to transport the eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the SRG satellite into space. Know-how provided by a team of FAU researchers under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Jörn Wilms is supporting the telescope’s mission. Continue

Are you and your family are new to the region and you don’t have any childcare yet? Do you have to give a presentation in the evening at the University and you don’t have a babysitter? Or do the school holidays coincide with the lecture period? Balancing the demands of work, research, study and family life is not easy. It’s good to know there’s a place FAU members can turn to in such situations – the Family Service. Continue

Always-on connectivity, information overload and new technology that has become part of our lives and that we now depend on. In this emerging digital world, researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and universities in Augsburg, Bamberg, Munich and Würzburg are investigating ways that we can interact with this technology that are beneficial rather than damaging to our health. Continue