diversity

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22JAN 2024
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“We need to be more daring”
Joachim Hornegger on Top-level research, supporting young researchers and the courage to take risks Joachim Hornegger is one of Germany’s top 100 IT specialists and has been President of FAU since 2015. Top-level research, supporting young researchers and the courage to take risks in research are important to him. And what else? Prof. Hornegger, a […]
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22JAN 2024
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Research and leadership
What it means to be head of a junior research group The 17 heads of junior research groups at FAU are excellent in their subject area and already have responsibility for staff. Radiation biologist Lisa Deloch is one of them. Women and men often present with quite different symptoms for the same disease. “Most people […]
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22JAN 2024
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Mission: Climate
How a university reduces its emissions What quantity of greenhouse gases does FAU produce and how can it reduce its emissions? David Brenner, who works as a climate action officer at the Green Office, has been considering questions such as these since the beginning of the year FAU is large and spread out over the […]
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22JAN 2024
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Patterns for success
How AI can help predict diseases and find the best treatment options Katharina Breininger works with image data, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro with audio signals. Both are investigating how AI can help to predict illnesses, make surgery more tolerable, and find the best treatment options. When you think about medical progress, data processing is rarely the […]
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22JAN 2024
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Promoting the University
Two people committed to the FAU How can links be improved between academia and industry? How can the public perception of the University be improved? Sabina Jeschke and Mathias Miedreich are involved in networks pursuing these objectives. The CxO Council at FAU that was founded in 2022 aims to encourage the link between academia and […]
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22JAN 2024
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Green and fair
What AI has to do with the environment and feminism A few clicks of the mouse, and the coordinates are placed. They mark the border between glacier ice and the open ocean, known as the calving front. “I want to train the program to recognize this line reliably in radar images,” explains Nora Gourmelon. “The […]
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10JAN 2024
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On the sunny side
How photovoltaic technology can be advanced Limited efficiency, difficult to recycle and no notable production sites in Germany. There is much to improve when it comes to photovoltaic technology. Christoph Brabec, Verena Tiefenbeck and Ian Marius Peters have now come together to give photovoltaic technology new impetus. Christoph Brabec is looking for the perfect material. […]
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