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13FEB 2024
Research
Digital twin accelerates solar research
Interdisciplinary team uses AI for the development of organic photovoltaics Artificial intelligence is expected to accelerate the search for the perfect material for solar panels by a factor of ten. An interdisciplinary team from FAU is working on this. Researchers from engineering including materials science, chemistry, and computer science aim to implement a digital twin […]
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13FEB 2024
Research
Geoscientist receives 1.7 million euros in funding
Deciphering the future of glaciers A flood wave advances on a mountain village. Water is becoming scarce in a nearby town. What sounds like a disaster movie is reality in the Tropical Andes. And all because the glaciers are shrinking. Dr. Thorsten Seehaus, lecturer at the Department of Geography, is investigating how glaciers have developed […]
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13FEB 2024
FAU news
Talentegrate project celebrates its first graduates
FAU, Siemens, adidas and SCHAEFFLER are bringing refugees and companies together Tackling two major challenges facing today’s society and economy at once. That is the idea behind the “Talentgrate” project. The joint project involving FAU and the companies Siemens, adidas and SCHAEFFLER aims both to integrate people with a refugee background and to take action […]
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13FEB 2024
FAU news
Student wins prize for audio feature on the NSU
During her Master’s degree in “Theater – Research–Transfer”, Bernadette Rauscher worked together with high school students from Weißenburg to produce the audio feature “Warum hört das nicht auf zu brennen? Oder: Vom Gestern im Heute. Auf den Spuren des NSU” (“Why does it not stop burning? Or: About the yesterday in today. On the trail […]
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12FEB 2024
FAU news
Good practice for good teaching
A new series of videos present the Guidelines for innovative teaching at FAU Teaching has an equal status to research at FAU. In order to ensure that our teaching remains of a consistently high standard, the University has worked together to draw up guidelines for innovative teaching. A new series of videos now demonstrates these […]
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12FEB 2024
Alumni
Promote promising FAU talents
Every year, scholarship holders and sponsors gather at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg to celebrate, exchange ideas and get to know each other at the Deutschlandstipendium scholarship celebration. With the Deutschlandstipendium, companies as well as alumni of FAU support committed students on their way to successfully completing their studies and taking their first steps into the […]
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05FEB 2024
FAU news
FAU Magazin now available in English
These people make FAU special In our FAU Magazin, we present staff, researchers, students and alumni who make FAU special. The articles from the magazine are now available in English. What is the FAU Magazin? A university thrives because of the people who research, study, teach and work there. They all contribute their unique talents, […]
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02FEB 2024
FAU news
FAU is a “University Open to the World”
Concerned about the anti-democratic tendencies that have recently emerged in our society, FAU emphatically endorses the statement of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), which states that liberal democracy and the rule of law are not only the foundations of a humane society, but also of functioning academia. “Openness and curiosity are the fundamental values of […]
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01FEB 2024
Research
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago
New discoveries of bones and tools in a cave in Thuringia The arrival of Homo sapiens in cold northern latitudes took place several thousand years before Neanderthals disappeared in southwest Europe. This is the conclusion reached by a team of researchers including Dr. Marcel Weiß from Chair of Prehistory and Early History at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg […]
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31JAN 2024
Research
Super code cracked: Central inflammation system discovered
Important mechanism for a wide range of different types of inflammation and autoimmune diseases The most common immune cells in our bodies that form the front line in the immune system’s defenses against infections are neutrophilic granulocytes. At the same time, neutrophils are also involved in a number of different inflammatory processes and autoimmune diseases. […]
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31JAN 2024
A cup with the President
A cup with the President – Episode 7: Prof. Dr. Ursula Roth
Stopping by the Institute of Practical Theology to meet Prof. Dr. Ursula Roth Each semester, FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who have just recently joined FAU. At their respective institutes, he gets to know them better as they talk about their research and share what is important to them. This series brings […]
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31JAN 2024
Research
Reflections without mirroring
Physicists at MPL and FAU develop novel concept for detecting chiral molecules In contrast to conventional mirrors, light can be reflected on surfaces known as meta surfaces without changing its polarization. This has now been proven by physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL). This enables […]
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