Research

Donald Trump's appearance on the political stage shows just how complex the dynamics surrounding peace and conflict really are. These dynamics are the field of work of the newly founded Bavarian Science Alliance for Peace, Conflict and Security Research. It includes 10 researchers from FAU, including Prof. Dr. Marco Bünte.

The glaciers are melting. This fact is well known. But how exactly do researchers determine this? Franziska Temme, a research assistant at the Institute of Geography at FAU, has studied the glaciers on the Cordillera Darwin ice field in South America on three excursions.

An interdisciplinary and international research team led by FAU is investigating the effects of nature conservation through privatization and luxury nature tourism on nature and people in the Global South. The project is being funded with 1.5 million euros by the Volkswagen Foundation.

A new procedure aims to help people with nerve damage or amputations to regain at least some of their motor skills. The method developed at FAU can be used and further developed by researchers free of charge.

Which technologies are particularly suitable for storing heat? What storage sizes are sensible and economical for regional suppliers? What role do space requirements, costs and temperature ranges play? Two consecutive studies by FAU and Nuremberg Institute of Technology are addressing these questions.

Dr. Johanna Janson-Schmitt from the Chair of Health Psychology at FAU explains why it is not good to spend time pondering on a stressful experience and what mindfulness has to do with preventing stress from having negative repercussions on our health.

Redox reactions play an important role in many applications. Understanding them fundamentally is important for developing technologies. Researchers at FAU have succeeded for the first time in distinguishing between two related reaction mechanisms.

In a new study, FAU Professors Georg Schett and Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer want to investigate the underlying mechanisms of CAR T-cell therapy. They have received a grant of 600,000 dollars from the US Lupus Research Alliance.

Together with researchers from Denmark and France, the team around FAU professor Dr. Benoît Ladoux have discovered a previously unknown winning strategy in mechanical cell competition. They've published their results in Nature Materials.

Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, but are themselves very unstable. Researchers at FAU and the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN) Magdeburg now want to decode these dynamics.