As a diverse, open and innovative university, FAU thrives on the passion and respect all of its members put into their work. It offers everybody at FAU scope for personal and career development, creates flexibility and provides support in all stages and situations of life. It creates a climate of openness, recognition and equal opportunity, thus promoting excellence in studying, teaching, research and administration.
Your journey to FAU
Regardless of whether your journey at FAU starts with training, studying, research or any other type of occupation, the University offers help and advice for all stages of your career, pages with information and contacts to assist you.
People at FAU work in administration, teaching or in research, study at one of our five faculties and often keep close ties with the University after they have finished their studies. We have put together information for students, researchers, staff and alumni on the following pages.
Our FAU Community is about to reach an exciting milestone: we will soon reach 15,000 members! We cordially invite you to become part of our dynamic and diverse community. The 15,000th member will win one of the coveted FAU Owls.
This year, from December 20, 2024 to January 6, 2025 there are no lectures.
FAU is closing its gates for Christmas break from December 23, 2024 to January 6, 2025 to save energy.
What used to be a bleak, deserted space in the Lange Gasse is now the WiSo oasis. However, the path toward the shared garden was anything but easy. It all began with an unusual email and blossomed into a project that made a lasting change to life at our uni.
“It was an ugly piece of land, unuse...
Two mobile radioisotope laboratories in eleven countries? That's possible! Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered as gifts to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the United States.
Alex Blania ist CEO of Tools for Humanity and founded the cryptocurrency World together with OpenAI founder Sam Altman. His ideas receive great attention worldwide. He studied physics and industrial engineering at our FAU. In the interview, Alex Blania gives personal insights into his time as a student, talks about his path to Silicon Valley and reveals what he would say to his childhood self today.
