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FAU Innovator 2022: Maike Kauffmann is an active member of the "Stiftung Verantwortungseigentum" and supports companies that want to promote ecologically and socially sustainable change in the economy and society. In an interview with the FAU Alumni Management, Maike Kauffmann explains what is special about her work, what drives her and how her time as a student at FAU has shaped her.

During the week, he is behind the microphone at Radio Gong from Funkhaus Nürnberg and at the weekend he fires up the fans of 1. FCN as the stadium announcer: FAU alumnus Sebastian Wendl. He studied Political Science and German Language and Literature in Erlangen between 2009 and 2013, and has been actively involved in radio and media circles for almost 10 years now. In our interview he explains what role FAU has played in his career to date.

Niels Rossow studied business administration at FAU from 1998 to 2002. After many years of employment at Adidas, the native of Nuremberg is now the commercial director of 1. FC Nuremberg (Club). In the interview, Niels Rossow provides insights into his work at the soccer club and also reports on the kick-off of the dual degree program at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences in cooperation with FAU.

As IBM (International Business Machines Cooperation) Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, she is based in Switzerland and one of her many projects involves developing a new generation of computer processors: Dr. Heike Riel. In our interview, the FAU-Alumna gives an insight into her work for IBM and talks about her lasting connections to FAU.

FAU alumna Christine Bruchmann has been director of the Fürst Gruppe in Nuremberg since 2005, a broad-based service provider with just under 4,000 employees. In our alumni interview, she reminisces about her time at FAU and shares the values close to her heart as a businesswoman.

When you’ve got your degree, it’s usually time to start looking for a job, but sometimes things don’t always turn out the way you expect them to – like for FAU alumnus Melanie Lokotsch.

Innovators solve problems with unconventional ideas: The FAU alumni start-up Grino Water Solutions has taken on one of the world’s most critical problems of supplying clean drinking water and delivered a clever solution: solar-powered water treatment systems. FAU alumni Josef Schütz, Alireza Derakhshan and Farzaneh Ahmadloo, founders of Grino Water Solutions were voted as FAU Innovator 2021 in the Alumni category.

What do the Nobel prize winner Prof. Dr. Harald zur Hausen, the actor Bjarne Mädel and the founders of Smart City Systems have in common? They all laid the foundations for their future careers and projects at FAU, whether as a researcher or as a student. Viewers will discover what links they still have to FAU even now on Tuesday 20 July 2021 at 8:15 pm in the television broadcast ‘Wir sind #FAU – Innovation leben’ (We are #FAU – Bringing innovation to life).

Roland Busch is the CEO of Siemens AG and chair of the University Council. After completing his doctoral degree in physics at FAU in 1994, he entered into research at Siemens. He has been the President and CEO since February 2021. In our interview, he shares his favourite spot at FAU and lets us know what he would ask Werner von Siemens.

Whether for your calendar, contacts, working on documents or writing e-mails, the smartphone has long since become a mobile office for many people. Students also increasingly use their mobile devices for organising their studies and for revision. FAU alumnus Quirin Malcherzyk and Pascal Pierre, who is currently studying at FAU, have developed an app for studying called ‘Flexudy’ together with another FAU alumnus, Benjamin Albrecht, and two friends, Deli Sarsar and Steffen Süß.