leidenschaft 2024

Browse all posts in the leidenschaft 2024 category.

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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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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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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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