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Prof. Dr. Ali is a world-renowned expert in the field of Dacryology. Already in March 2018 he told us about his research stay at FAU. Now Prof. Dr. Ali is again in Erlangen to further his research. We met him to find out what had happened since his last stay.

Prof. Zapperi is an expert in statistical physics of complex systems and researches in the fields of materials science, biophysics and systems biology. Among his most notable contributions is the theory of the Barkhausen noise in magnets, the statistical physics of plasticity and fracture, as well as recent work on the physics of cancer and protein aggregation. As a guest researcher, he does research on mechanical metamaterials at FAU´s Institute of Materials Simulations.