FAUmagazin 2023

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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
Human rights have always been controversial
Interview with migration and human rights activist Anuscheh Farahat Anuscheh Farahat is Professor of Public Law, Migration Law and Human Rights at FAU. A conversation about her research, and why FAU is the ideal location for it. Prof. Farahat, what draws you to the topic of human rights? My original focus was on migration. There, […]
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22JAN 2024
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A green future? Child’s play!
When programming leads to international friendships 3:30 in the morning at Nuremberg Airport. Judith Wahl is standing at the arrivals hall where she has welcomed her two guests, Feride Berra Köseoglu and Kayra Orman, students at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). The three of them are not particularly chatty at that moment, they just want to […]
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22JAN 2024
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The designers of atomic structures
Julien Bachmann and Andreas Hirsch in search of new materials It started with amazement: “In chemistry lessons at school, we were allowed to do experiments involving liquids changing color. It found it fascinating that we can change materials like that,” explains Julien Bachmann, Chair of Chemistry of Thin Film Materials at FAU and member of […]
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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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22JAN 2024
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More hydrogen!
Marion Merklein, Simon Thiele and their contribution to the energy transition If the energy transition is to be a success, we need sources of green hydrogen and efficient technologies to use the energy it contains. Mechanical engineer Marion Merklein and process engineering specialist Simon Thiele are researching this field. An interview. Prof. Merklein, Prof. Thiele, […]
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22JAN 2024
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“You sometimes need courage to work in medicine”
Georg Schett and his groundbreaking treatment Two years ago, Georg Schett treated patients suffering from serious autoimmune disease using the patients’ own genetically-modified cells for the first time. It was so successful that these patients do not require any other form of treatment. Prof. Dr. Georg Schett, Director of the Department of Medicine 3 at […]
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22JAN 2024
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Face-to-face teaching in the digital world
How online formats and on campus teaching go well together Digital education works very well if it is based on well-founded teaching methods, says Svenja Bedenlier. This applies both to courses held solely online and to various teaching formats used in digitally-supported face-to-face teaching. Online classes and events became the norm at FAU during the […]
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