FAUmagazin 2024

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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
More than a gut feeling: The brain-gut connection
What role does our digestive tract play in triggering Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer’s? Beate Winner is the speaker for a clinical research group exploring this question. It is approximately six meters long. It is home to huge quantities of bacteria, viruses and fungi, totaling roughly ten times more than the number of cells we […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Two against the wolf
Taking a playful approach to raising awareness of serious diseases and opening up new channels for patient communication: the app “Fighting Lupus” developed by Sandra Jeleazcov and Benedikt Morschheuser. “Imagine a girl: young, lively, incredibly talented. Suddenly she becomes ill: LUPUS, a cute name, but a brutal autoimmune disease.” These are the opening words in […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
“Hello, my friend”
What is the importance of the EELISA Alliance for FAU? An interview with Joachim Hornegger, Johanna Hojer and Melanie Viebahn. Eight countries, ten universities, one alliance – that is the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, or EELISA for short. In May 2024, students, researchers, members of staff and presidents of the involved universities […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The brain engineer
Silvia Budday explores how our brain reacts to mechanical forces. Since 2024, her work has been funded by an ERC Starting Grant. The young professor in mechanical engineering does not see being a scientist and being a mother as a contradiction in terms. It would have been too far by boat. So Silvia Budday and […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Time zones and nerve cells
Japan, USA, Germany: No matter in which country he lives and conducts research, the neuroscientist Tomohisa Toda wants to find out what makes the nerve cells in our brain robust. It all started with the kitchen unit. More accurately, the missing kitchen unit, which left Tomohisa Toda and his wife quite baffled. In Japan, where […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Responsibility from the outset
Why FAU is an excellent location for young researchers, and what advice FAU President Hornegger has for them The President’s office in the Schloss in Erlangen. Joachim Hornegger has just come out of a marathon of back to back meetings. An interview about early career researchers and new talent is quite relaxing for him. That’s […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
On the right track
Science Minister Markus Blume and linguist Michaela Mahlberg about High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, digital technologies and the role of social media. With its High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, the Free State of Bavaria has launched a unique innovation offensive. The aim: Even more research and teaching on cutting-edge technologies in Bavaria. And: Sparking enthusiasm for the new developments […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
A robust catalyst
The energy transition is at risk of becoming a failure if hydrogen cannot be produced in a sustainable manner. Catalysts that are put under extreme conditions are required to produce this hydrogen. In conjunction with three other researchers, Karl Mayrhofer is therefore searching for robust and cost-effective accelerators for such reactions. Electricity from wind power, […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Eavesdropping in the Arctic
Astrophysicist Anna Nelles searches for neutrinos on Greenland’s ice fields. She hopes to gain new insights into processes that occur in space. In space, two black holes merge to form one, releasing huge amounts of energy. However, the location in the universe where this happened remains quiet and dark. This is because the light cannot […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The present and the future
Andrea Bréard is the new Vice President Education In our interview, she explains how she would like to combat discrimination at FAU, what is meant by educational integrity and what role AI can play in teaching. Prof. Bréard, like your predecessor, you would like to put an end to discrimination in education. But do not […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
HIV vaccine soon a reality?
Virologist Klaus Überla and his team at FAU are developing new immunization strategies against HIV, building on decades of experience. One in 1000 people is HIV positive in Germany. That means that the proportion of people infected with HIV in Germany is higher than ever before. Some people may find that surprising, after all people […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Skateboards and foxgloves
The biologist Jennifer Munkert and mechanical engineer Marcel Bartz have been awarded this year’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts. It is not unusual for Marcel Bartz to come into the lecture theater with a cart in tow. Today he is planning to disassemble a clutch in […]
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