FAUmagazin 2024

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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
“A special place in the world”
Robert Busch, CEO of Siemens and chair of the University Council about his time at university in Erlangen, the potential of FAU and what physics has to do with leading a company. Mr. Busch, what three things come to mind when you think about FAU? Physics, great people, Erlangen. You studied and completed a doctoral […]
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28JAN 2025
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Making material speak
Karl Mandel has received an ERC Consolidator Grant worth two million euros. With the funding, the chemist hopes to develop supraparticles that will give information about the state of materials. Prof. Mandel, what are you currently researching? We are researching supraparticles. These are small particles of only a few micrometers in size made up of […]
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28JAN 2025
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Anything other than bone idle
Aline Bozec is the speaker of the new Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 369, “DIONE – Degeneration of Bone due to Inflammation”. The CRC investigates why and how inflammatory diseases affect bones. What are you currently researching? I am currently researching the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the biology of bones and rheumatoid arthritis. I am […]
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28JAN 2025
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Testing strength
Benoît Ladoux is a biophysicist and an Alexander von Humboldt Professor at FAU. He investigates how cells react to physical influences, a topic that is of interest, for instance, to cancer research. Benoît Ladoux has spent most of his career in Paris and Singapore. He is used to big cities, and Erlangen is his first […]
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28JAN 2025
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Impulses for human rights
Legal expert and sinologist Eva Pils knows Chinese society inside out. As an Alexander von Humboldt Professor, she aims to raise the visibility of human rights research at FAU. Eva Pils discovered her fascination for the topic of human rights in China while studying in Heidelberg, Peking and London. Her knowledge of the language, society […]
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28JAN 2025
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A lawyer for missing people
Grażyna Baranowska joined FAU in 2024 as Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights. She aims to make a contribution to interdisciplinary research at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg. “I have always been fascinated by the variety of debates connected to human rights and the relevance of the topic for society,” explains Grażyna Baranowska. […]
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28JAN 2025
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From the lecture hall to a chain of restaurants
Philipp Selzle, founder of the smart food chain “Kaspar Schmauser”, about his time at FAU, his business idea and lots of post-its. He currently runs five restaurants in Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth and Leipzig, with plans for three more already in the pipeline: FAU-alumnus Philipp Selzle is one of the founding members and managing director of […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
From Birmingham to Erlangen
As a Humboldt Professor at FAU, Michaela Mahlberg sifts through huge text corpora to discover patterns that show what moves people. Environmental issues, for example. Michaela Mahlberg really wanted to become a teacher. While studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, she learned programming and came into contact with corpus linguistics in English, and that […]
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02DEC 2024
FAU news
From a stone desert to a blooming oasis
What used to be a bleak, deserted space in the Lange Gasse is now the WiSo oasis. However, the path toward the shared garden was anything but easy. It all began with an unusual email and blossomed into a project that made a lasting change to life at our uni. “It was an ugly piece […]
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