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Physicists at FAU and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU) have accomplished a quantum leap in light research. They have managed to capture the behaviour of extremely short laser pulses during focusing by means of very high spatial and temporal resolution.

In view of climate change and the needs of the energy reform, it has become important to significantly increase the efficiency of organic solar cells. Physicists and chemists at FAU collaborating in an international joint project have now successfully described a mechanism with which it may be possible to achieve this.

The particularly aggressive brain tumours known as glioblastomas often prove to be resistant to chemotherapy. The team of physicians headed by Nicolai Savaskan of the Chair for Neurosurgery at FAU has now identified a key gene that could be responsible for this.

Fundamental new insights into the functioning of the immune system and a new approach to treating autoimmune diseases: these are among the achievements of the transregional collaborative research centre TRR130 ‘B-cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity’.

You can still apply for degree programmes with admission restrictions starting in the winter semester 2017/18 until 15 July

As of the winter semester 2017/18, FAU is offering two new areas of specialisation within the Master of Geosciences: Palaeobiology and Earth Systems Research Lab. The Palaeoenvironment Professional Group at FAU´s GeoCentre Northern Bavaria organised an Open Day in June 2017 to gave potential students the opportunity to learn more about the new programme.

Whether the new location offers career opportunities for life partners, too, plays an important role when researchers consider an offer of a chair or professorship at a university. Therefore, FAU has a Dual Career Service which supports the partners of newly appointed professors and international postdocs.

Nine teams of FAU researchers and international peers will forge new ideas together on the sailing ship ‘Thor Heyerdahl’