vielfalt 2024

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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
“Hello, my friend”
What is the importance of the EELISA Alliance for FAU? An interview with Joachim Hornegger, Johanna Hojer and Melanie Viebahn. Eight countries, ten universities, one alliance – that is the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance, or EELISA for short. In May 2024, students, researchers, members of staff and presidents of the involved universities […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
The brain engineer
Silvia Budday explores how our brain reacts to mechanical forces. Since 2024, her work has been funded by an ERC Starting Grant. The young professor in mechanical engineering does not see being a scientist and being a mother as a contradiction in terms. It would have been too far by boat. So Silvia Budday and […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Time zones and nerve cells
Japan, USA, Germany: No matter in which country he lives and conducts research, the neuroscientist Tomohisa Toda wants to find out what makes the nerve cells in our brain robust. It all started with the kitchen unit. More accurately, the missing kitchen unit, which left Tomohisa Toda and his wife quite baffled. In Japan, where […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
Responsibility from the outset
Why FAU is an excellent location for young researchers, and what advice FAU President Hornegger has for them The President’s office in the Schloss in Erlangen. Joachim Hornegger has just come out of a marathon of back to back meetings. An interview about early career researchers and new talent is quite relaxing for him. That’s […]
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