The Distinguished Service Medal of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is one of the highest awards from FAU. With this award, the University honors people who have demonstrated outstanding merit in a particular area within the University.
The holders of FAU’s Distinguished Service Medal are:
- Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel, Institute of Political Science, Research area Migration, Refuge and Integration at FAU
- Prof. Dr. Gautam Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (India)
- Dr. phil. Martin Boss, FAU Antique Collection
- Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock, Chair of Systematic Theology at FAU
- Dr. Christiane Decker, Partner at Freibanker in Vienna, Member of the FAU Advisory Board, Member of the FAU CxO Council
- Ursula Ertl, formerly responsible for organizing FAU’s Schlossgartenfest
- Prof. Dr. Rudolf Freiburg, former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, former member of the Senate
- Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm, Chair of Economic Theory
- Prof. Dr. Sabina Jeschke, CEO of the AI ecosystem KI Park e.V., Member of the FAU CxO Council
- Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Gerhard Koller, former Head of the FAU Language Centre
- Marileia Gastaldi Machado Lopes, rector of the University of Joinville (Brazil)
- Prof. Dr. Subhash Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (India)
- Prof. Dr. Yaling Pan, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing (China)
- Prof. Dr. Ram Prakash Singh, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur (Indien)
- Christof Präg, former Director of the University Building Authority, author of catalog of art works at FAU called “Kunst am Bau – Werke an der FAU”
- Students’ Representatives at FAU (Stuve), represented by Lara Ebbinghaus and Michael Ruppert
- Prof. Zhengfu Wang, deputy rector of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing, China, and professor at the School of International Education (SIE)