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In order to study at FAU, refugees are required to learn German. The Association for Promoting Internationalisation at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is supporting 24 refugees taking part in German language courses with a donation of 7200 euros.

The Italian and French consuls general have visited FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger and signed the University's Golden Book.

One way of assessing how influential researchers are is according to how often their publications are cited. This is the basis of the annual CWTS Leiden ranking of top universities. FAU has achieved an excellent placement in the ranking again this year.

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Dr. Liang Zhang got the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship to carry out his postdoctoral research at FAU under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück at the Chair of Physical Chemistry II. At FAU, his research is mainly about “surface science with porphyrins”.

FAU has performed excellently again in the Centre for Higher Education’s (CHE) university ranking, and is ranked among the best for chemistry and for electrical engineering and information engineering.

An international team of researchers has shown for the first time that depression can be effectively prevented through online training.

The German government is investing approximately 40 million euros in IZNF, a new interdisciplinary centre for nanostructured films. Construction of the new centre, which will be located on the Southern Campus in Erlangen, is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

Professor Dr. Peter Dabrock, Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) at FAU, has been elected chairperson of the German Ethics Council, the most important advisory body in the field of ethics in Germany.

FAU's natural scientists are among the most productive researchers in their disciplines in Germany and Europe according to the latest Nature Index Tables.