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Ein Forschungsteam der FAU hat eine neuartige Methode entwickelt, mit der Oberflächen auf der Nanoskala absolut sauber werden. Durch mechanische Kräfte werden dabei auch kleinste Kontaminationen bis zur atomaren Skala entfernt.

A type of video monitoring could help us get the better of coronavirus: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light and FAU are trying to observe how cells become infected with Sars-CoV-2 in real time. They are hoping to achieve this by installing a particularly powerful microscope in a high-security virology laboratory.

How can rural areas be developed so that they offer a culturally attractive place to live for young people? And how can libraries as a place of culture make a contribution? These are the questions the ‘Libraries, Digitalisation, and Cultural Education in Peripheral Areas’ project hopes to answer.

Helping each other is the order of the day. This not only applies in your neighbourhood, but also at the University. Chairs and institutes at FAU have started collaborating with Neue Materialien Fürth (NMF) GmbH, a research centre of the Bavarian State, to manufacture personal protective equipment that is urgently needed by medical staff at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen.

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen has been granted official permission to produce therapeutic plasma to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients. Current scientific data suggest that COVID-19 immune plasma could significantly mitigate the life-threatening progression of the disease.

If you browse the web, you can find countless different home workouts. Why not offer University Sports online as well? Guido Köstermeyer had the same idea, and collaborated with his colleagues to make sports courses available online for students and staff at FAU.

Their judgement has a major influence on German economic policy: The council of five economic experts known as ‘die fünf Wirtschaftsweisen’ assesses macroeconomic developments in the Federal Republic of Germany, helping political bodies to make informed decisions on economic policy issues. The economist Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm from FAU has now been appointed as a new member of the council.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schubert from the chair of Polymer Materials (LSP) at FAU has developed a simple process that enables him and his team at the chair of polymer materials to produce breathing masks from meltblown filter fleece on short notice.

Society is also faced with ethical challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. Professor Dr. Peter Dabrock, Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) at FAU and chairperson of the German Ethics Council in an interview with FAU President Prof. Joachim Hornegger (video) and various media.