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The Executive Board at FAU has a new member: Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard. She holds the Chair of Chinese Studies, focusing on the philosophical and cultural history of China at FAU. What are Andrea Bréard’s plans for the next three years? We asked her. 

The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) elected Prof. Dr. Klaus Überla as its new chair during its inaugural meeting. The director of the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Uniklinikum Erlangen and Chair of Clinical and Molecular Virology at FAU has been a member of the committee since 2017.

As IBM (International Business Machines Cooperation) Fellow, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe at IBM Research, she is based in Switzerland and one of her many projects involves developing a new generation of computer processors: Dr. Heike Riel. In our interview, the FAU-Alumna gives an insight into her work for IBM and talks about her lasting connections to FAU.

The Future of Work Committee (Rat der Arbeitswelt) submitted its first report to Hubertus Heil, the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, today. Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer is a member of the Committee and Chair of Sociology (Technology, Labour and Society) at FAU.

A start-up trio at FAU have developed a new technology which can produce passive high-frequency components directly from computer models. Now the researchers will receive funding of 1.1 million euros from the EXIST programme of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to develop the technology into a market-ready product.

There has been a women’s representative at FAU for 30 years now. In our interview, the current postholder, Prof. Dr. Annette Keilhauer, outlines some of the challenges faced by her predecessors, what they have achieved and what still remains to be done.

Every year, researchers come to FAU or go abroad whose stay is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). In order to offer "Humboldtians" in the Franconian region a forum for encounter and exchange, the regional group Franconia of the German Society of Humboldtains e.V. (DGH) was founded in October 2019 at FAU.

FAU doctoral candidate Annette Hagengruber has set herself the goal of designing solutions based on artificial intelligence to help people with restricted mobility in their everyday lives. The Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (German Informatics Society) has nominated her as an AI newcomer of the year in recognition of her achievements.