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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
A lawyer for missing people
Grażyna Baranowska joined FAU in 2024 as Professor of Migration Law and Human Rights. She aims to make a contribution to interdisciplinary research at the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg. “I have always been fascinated by the variety of debates connected to human rights and the relevance of the topic for society,” explains Grażyna Baranowska. […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
From the lecture hall to a chain of restaurants
Philipp Selzle, founder of the smart food chain “Kaspar Schmauser”, about his time at FAU, his business idea and lots of post-its. He currently runs five restaurants in Nuremberg, Erlangen, Fürth and Leipzig, with plans for three more already in the pipeline: FAU-alumnus Philipp Selzle is one of the founding members and managing director of […]
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28JAN 2025
FAUmagazin 2024
From Birmingham to Erlangen
As a Humboldt Professor at FAU, Michaela Mahlberg sifts through huge text corpora to discover patterns that show what moves people. Environmental issues, for example. Michaela Mahlberg really wanted to become a teacher. While studying mathematics at the University of Bonn, she learned programming and came into contact with corpus linguistics in English, and that […]
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28JAN 2025
FAU news
ECTS credits for brewing beer
At FAU, students can gain ECTS credits for brewing beer: Various types of craft beer ranging from pale ale to Weizenbock are produced at the “Röthelheimbräu” brewery at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering. Brewing beer also allows students to gain an insight into the wide range of areas of application for bioprocess engineering. And the […]
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27JAN 2025
FAU news
Hackathon: Sustainable City Design
What does the the future of urban development look like? That’s the topic of the hackathon “GreenMeta City: Sustainable City Design”, funded by the 4th EELISA Joint Call. Students from all levels are welcome. When: 4th April – 6th April 2025 Where: d.hip in Erlangen (Henkestraße 127, 91052 Erlangen, Germany) Registration deadline is February 12th. […]
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27JAN 2025
FAU news
To grasp the world again
Children who cannot move their hands, for example after suffering a stroke at a young age: Scientists from the Neuromuscular Physiology and Neural Interfacing Laboratory (N-squared Lab) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) hope that impairments such as these will soon belong to the past. Following the remit of the “PlayAgain” project, the working group led by […]
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24JAN 2025
FAU news
Project funding: Improving the detection of deepfakes
Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. The project has received 350,000 euros of funding from the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation […]
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21JAN 2025
Study
Start up: Dedicated to protecting water quality
Nine teams from six EELISA partner universities participated in the third EELISA Prototype Contest hosted by FAU in collaboration with JOSEPHS – The Open Innovation Lab in Nuremberg, Germany from 10 to 13 December 2024. In this third edition of the contest, the teams engaged in a four-day onsite co-creation workshop at JOSEPHS, where they […]
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21JAN 2025
A cup with the President
A Cup with the President – Episode 20: Prof. Dr. Caroline J. Voskens
Each semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who are new to FAU. He visits them in their institutions to talk about their research, to discover what is close to their heart and to get to know them better. Our series introduces you to the researchers and gives an impression of the President’s […]
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17JAN 2025
Alumni
FAU Alumni #JobInsights: Philip Clas, Digital and Marketing Chief Officer
Work as a game? That’s exactly what Philip Clas advises. He studied business administration at our FAU and gained professional experience in both start-ups and corporations. Today, he works as Digital and Marketing Chief Officer at the online sportswear store TEVEO. He also has these two tips for starting a career: make sure you have […]
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17JAN 2025
FAU news
High electricity prices and more price fluctuations
Companies and consumers have high hopes that electricity prices will return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the departure from using Russian gas, energy costs rose to record levels. However, from a scientific point of view, there will be no return to previous normal levels. Quite the contrary, […]
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15JAN 2025
FAU news
Former asylum in Erlangen to become a place of remembrance and learning
A remembrance trail in the outside area, a core exhibition in the main building of the former asylum combined with an annex showing the fate of those murdered there and an extensive educational program: An important milestone has been reached on the journey towards establishing a place of remembrance and learning dedicated to the victims […]
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