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Gels are found in wide range of products that we use on a day-to-day basis. But what gives gels their solid properties? Researchers have now shown that the answer is directed chains of particles in their network-like structure.

FAU has an excellent international reputation. This is reflected in the large number of renowned international researchers who choose FAU as their host university as part of a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

This year Erlangen hosted the 17th International Comic-Salon – a unique combination of all possible events connected with art and comics: exhibitions, workshops, comic books fair and cosplay. Read more on the student blog meineFAU.

Dr. Huynh Van Luong (Vietnam) is involved in research related to the field of image and video coding and processing. As a Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at FAU, he is developing a distributed sensing framework to deal with high-dimensional data for multi-view object recognition and tracking toward mobile augmented reality.

FAU researchers have discovered a mechanism that stops chronic inflammation.

Another FAU researcher has succeeded in securing funding from the European Union amid tough competition. Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, has been awarded one of the sought-after ERC Advanced Grants worth 2.5 million euros.

A little girl from Syria has finally had a heart defect corrected thanks to support from Erlangen. A dedicated acquaintance was able to get Raghad and her father to Germany where the association 'Erlangen hilft' provided them with valuable support over a period of several months.

On June 15-16, 2016 the students of the FAU will have a chance to participate in real life politics – Hochschulwahl. This article on the student blog meineFAU offers some interesting insights and facts.

Dr. Duo Xu focuses his research interests on turbulent flows and transition to turbulence in shear flows using state-of-the-art experimental and numerical research tools. Since August 2014, he has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics (FAU) studying the transition to turbulence in pulsation pipe flows in the group led by Prof. M. Avila (FAU) in collaboration with Prof. B. Hof (IST Austria).

For universities in Iraq, remaining a part of international research and staying up-to-date with developments in teaching despite sanctions, war and chaos is essential. FAU is helping them to ensure this is possible.