Profile Centers shape the research profile of FAU with a wide range of cutting-edge research projects, both in collaborative research and excellent individual research. In order to effectively support the University’s strategic objectives, they are limited to a duration of seven years.
FAU Profile Centers
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The FAU Profile Center Immunomedicine is primarily concerned with consolidating cross-faculty immunological research in Erlangen. Its spectrum ranges from basic research to translational research and clinical immunological studies.
FAU I-MED investigates the fundamental mechanisms and dysfunctions of the immune system and develops personalized methods for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of autoimmune diseases, chronic inflammatory diseases, cancer and infectious diseases.
Its aim is to use cutting-edge cellular, molecular and imaging processes in conjunction with studies based on animal experimentation and examinations carried out on human subjects to unravel immune reactions in all their complexity and to make these findings available for clinical medicine.
The scientific and technological development of our society is unimaginable without photonics and electronics, which form the backbone of our current information technology.
In recent years, the focus at FAU has turned to the joint consideration of light and matter, which will make many new phenomena and technologies comprehensible and thus form the basis for the key technologies of the 21st century.
This requires substantial efforts in fundamental as well as applied research, which will be consolidated in the new FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.Quantum Technologies at FAU.
Research into medical engineering has been extremely important at FAU for several decades. Several hundred research staff at FAU and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen from all faculties and institutes in medical engineering research and teaching contribute to the leading edge cluster Medical Valley in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region.
The profile center consolidates activities in the key research priority of medical engineering and its tasks include coordinating advisory services for funding and entrepreneurship, as well as setting up degree programs or networking events.
The FAU Profile Center New Materials and Processes (FAU NMP) promotes and strengthens innovative interdisciplinary research in FAU’s New Materials and Processes key research priority. It identifies new research topics geared to the future and promotes initiatives that further develop the top international and national ranking of this key research priority and the research environment in Erlangen and Nuremberg.
FAU Solar researches into strategies to overcome the limitations of converting solar energy into electricity and is accelerating the development of semiconductors that can be printed at low temperatures. The aim is to produce cheap, green solar electricity at a large scale and at the highest output without damaging the environment.
The Profile Center Solar pursues a holistic optimization strategy based on a digital model of the entire value chain. FAU Solar combines top-level research in engineering, science, data science and business and economics.
FAU Solar’s research is an important component of strategic development at FAU and closely linked to other key research priorities.