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22JAN 2024
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Research and leadership
What it means to be head of a junior research group The 17 heads of junior research groups at FAU are excellent in their subject area and already have responsibility for staff. Radiation biologist Lisa Deloch is one of them. Women and men often present with quite different symptoms for the same disease. “Most people […]
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22JAN 2024
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Mission: Climate
How a university reduces its emissions What quantity of greenhouse gases does FAU produce and how can it reduce its emissions? David Brenner, who works as a climate action officer at the Green Office, has been considering questions such as these since the beginning of the year FAU is large and spread out over the […]
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22JAN 2024
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Patterns for success
How AI can help predict diseases and find the best treatment options Katharina Breininger works with image data, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro with audio signals. Both are investigating how AI can help to predict illnesses, make surgery more tolerable, and find the best treatment options. When you think about medical progress, data processing is rarely the […]
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22JAN 2024
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Promoting the University
Two people committed to the FAU How can links be improved between academia and industry? How can the public perception of the University be improved? Sabina Jeschke and Mathias Miedreich are involved in networks pursuing these objectives. The CxO Council at FAU that was founded in 2022 aims to encourage the link between academia and […]
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22JAN 2024
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Green and fair
What AI has to do with the environment and feminism A few clicks of the mouse, and the coordinates are placed. They mark the border between glacier ice and the open ocean, known as the calving front. “I want to train the program to recognize this line reliably in radar images,” explains Nora Gourmelon. “The […]
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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
More hydrogen!
Marion Merklein, Simon Thiele and their contribution to the energy transition If the energy transition is to be a success, we need sources of green hydrogen and efficient technologies to use the energy it contains. Mechanical engineer Marion Merklein and process engineering specialist Simon Thiele are researching this field. An interview. Prof. Merklein, Prof. Thiele, […]
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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
“You sometimes need courage to work in medicine”
Georg Schett and his groundbreaking treatment Two years ago, Georg Schett treated patients suffering from serious autoimmune disease using the patients’ own genetically-modified cells for the first time. It was so successful that these patients do not require any other form of treatment. Prof. Dr. Georg Schett, Director of the Department of Medicine 3 at […]
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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
Face-to-face teaching in the digital world
How online formats and on campus teaching go well together Digital education works very well if it is based on well-founded teaching methods, says Svenja Bedenlier. This applies both to courses held solely online and to various teaching formats used in digitally-supported face-to-face teaching. Online classes and events became the norm at FAU during the […]
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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
High-precision antennas
FAU scientists work for NASA One room, three young researchers and lots of ideas. This is how it all started. By now, Golden Devices’ customers include automobile manufacturers, the aerospace industry and even NASA. A nicely renovated brick building in Röthelheimpark in Erlangen. In the hallway, three tall glass cabinets stand out that contain delicate […]
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22JAN 2024
FAUmagazin 2023
Making the most of light
Going beyond the dimensions of data transmission with quantum technologies How much information can pass through a fiber optic cable? Christoph and Florian Marquardt want to go beyond the current dimensions of data transmission – with quantum technologies. The fact that light is not merely light or dark to Christoph Marquardt is quite logical – […]
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22JAN 2024
3 questions
What AI is, what it can be and what it should be
3 questions for: Vincent C. Müller Vincent C. Müller has held an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at FAU for a few months now. He is responsible for establishing a research center at the interface between the humanities and technology. Prof. Müller, what are you currently researching? My research focuses on the philosophy and in particular […]
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19JAN 2024
Alumni
FAU Alumni #MyStory: Ines Brunn
She was the “Wettkönigin” on the TV show “Wetten, dass…?” and baked pancakes while standing on her bike. During her professional career, Ines Brunn lived in China for several years and opened her own bicycle shop there. Today she still performs as an artistic cyclist on various stages and travels all over the world as […]
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