An international astronomical search has now been successful as a team of researchers has located a cosmic source of energy-rich neutrinos for the first time. The search began after a single high-energy neutrino was detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope in ice in the Antarctic on 22 September 2017. Continue

Parkinson's disease, formerly also referred to as shaking palsy, is one of the most frequent disorders affecting movement and the nervous system. Medical researchers at FAU have come across a possible cause of the disease – in the patients' immune system. Continue

FAU is among the universities in Germany that receive the highest amounts of third-party funding from research funding organisations and government ministries, especially in the field of engineering. FAU is ranked first in Bavaria according to the DFG Funding Atlas. Continue

The dream of travelling through time – whether to the future or to the past – is as old as mankind itself. Researchers at FAU are involved in a European research project which intends to make this dream come true – figuratively at least. In our interview, Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, Department of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition Lab), among others explains how this time travel works. Continue

What effect do large-scale weather patterns have on Bavarian forest ecosystems? What role is played by regional climate conditions? What do school pupils know about climate change? Researchers at FAU have been investigating these questions in a new joint project named BayTreeNet with the help of so-called talking trees. Continue

Generating more electricity from solar cells and conducting further research into so-called singlet fission. This is what scientists at FAU are currently working on as part of a joint research project conducted in collaboration with Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA. Continue

The Bertha Benz Prize was awarded for the tenth time on 14 June 2018 as part of the Bertha Benz lecture programme in Heidelberg. Dr. Silvia Budday from the Faculty of Engineering at FAU has been awarded the prize for her doctoral thesis 'The Role of Mechanics during Brain Development'. Continue

FAU has received an excellent rating in the international U-Multirank university ranking for 2018 in the Research and Knowledge Transfer categories. Continue

Severe diarrhoea, stomach pain, cramps – these are the most common symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Morbus Crohn or Colitis ulcerosa. A new collaborative research centre at FAU is focusing on this area. Continue

Intramolecular reactions make it possible for solar energy to be transformed and stored in a single molecule. This may form the basis for constructing energy-storing solar cells. FAU is currently investigating this topic in two research projects. Continue