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Research Focus Areas at the Faculties

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  • Key Research Priorities at FAU
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Research Focus Areas at the Faculties

Research focus areas at the Faculties

The Research Focus Areas at the five faculties highlight the wide range of disciplines which are covered in research and teaching at FAU. Just like FAU’s interfaculty Key Research Priorities, each of the Research Focus Areas at the faculties is also supported by several professors, the research has a high level of national and international visibility, and research and teaching are closely linked.

Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology

The faculty encourages agile research structures for collaborative projects. With this agile system, the faculty offers an increased level of transparency, improved visibility and a clear support system to all its members who would like to carry out collaborative research at the faculty.

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Faculty of Business, Economics, and Law

School of Law

  • Human rights
  • Law and religion
  • Banking and capital markets law

School of Business, Economics and Society

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  • Change in the world of work
  • Customer insights
  • Tax and tax policy
  • Insurance and risk
  • Digitalization of the economy
  • Energy markets and energy systems analysis
  • Health

Faculty of Medicine

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  • Infection and immunology research
  • Kidney and vascular research
  • Neurosciences
  • Tumor research
  • Medical engineering

Faculty of Sciences

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  • Climate and resources
  • Integrated molecular life sciences
  • Materials and light-matter interaction
  • Modeling, simulation and optimization
  • The physics and mathematics of the cosmos

Faculty of Engineering

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  • Digital transformation and electronics
  • Energy – Environment – Climate
  • Materials and processes
  • Medical engineering
  • Optical technologies



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