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In a recent study, researchers at the FAU Profile Center Solar have developed criteria for defect tolerance in order to accelerate the search for environmentally friendly semiconductor compounds.

Redox reactions play an important role in many applications. Understanding them fundamentally is important for developing technologies. Researchers at FAU have succeeded for the first time in distinguishing between two related reaction mechanisms.

In a new study, FAU Professors Georg Schett and Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer want to investigate the underlying mechanisms of CAR T-cell therapy. They have received a grant of 600,000 dollars from the US Lupus Research Alliance.

Together with researchers from Denmark and France, the team around FAU professor Dr. Benoît Ladoux have discovered a previously unknown winning strategy in mechanical cell competition. They've published their results in Nature Materials.

Tomohisa Toda, Professor of Neural Epigenetics at FAU, is investigating how the physical nature of cell nuclei affects gene regulation and brain function. Now, the scientist is being honored with the Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience.

Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, but are themselves very unstable. Researchers at FAU and the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN) Magdeburg now want to decode these dynamics.

FAU astrophysicist Dr. Jonas Glombitza uses AI as an analysis catalyst for data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. His analysis is only the second in astroparticle physics in which machine learning has been used.

In this year's QS subject ranking, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was ranked in a total of 20 subjects. This means that FAU is represented in all five subject areas of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds ranking.

Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025.

Every semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors in their departments. In episode 23, he visits Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosshart. He holds the Chair of Microbiomics at FAU.