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FAU is committed to ensuring that everyone has equal opportunities when it comes to learning, research and personal development. The diversity of FAU’s members means that the University has a wealth of potential and opportunities at its disposal.

Which developments in technology and society are possible, probable, and desirable? Prof. Dr. Veronika Grimm has been appointed by the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, to the newly-founded Foresight Panel to help answer this question.

To make sure the transition from uni to work is a nimble sprint rather than a torturous marathon, FAU has a range of services to help get you off to a flying start.

The FAU Shenzhen Fall School was run by FAU in cooperation with the renowned Peking University and offered an attractive training opportunity focussing on ‘Medical Innovations, 5G and AI’. Photo gallery available online.

Researchers at FAU have evaluated the [U25] online suicide prevention programme offered by the Caritas Association and can now provide some interim results.

Studying is just dull theory? Think again! At FAU, students carry out independent research into synthetic biology – and take part annually in an international competition.

Led by astronomers from FAU, an international consortium has recently discovered a new high-velocity star. These are stars which move at great speed through the Milky Way, sometimes travelling so fast that they may eventually leave our galaxy.

In the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, FAU was again listed among the top 200 universities for 2020.

In 2019, FAU is to celebrate the achievements of this year’s doctoral graduates with a central awards ceremony, welcoming them into the alumni family.

Laser physicist Dr. Michael Krüger has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) He is now researching and teaching at Technion in Haifa, Israel but FAU’s Institute of Laser Physics was instrumental in the successful grant application while Krüger was at the University.