They come from Syria, Ethiopia, Ukraine and Albania and they have one thing in common: they are all taking part in FAU's programme for refugees and asylum seekers.
How does the mother-of-pearl in clam shells form? Not in a crystallisation process but through the aggregation of nanoparticles within an organic matrix – as materials scientists at FAU have now shown.
In the early morning of December 3 scientists and engineers from nine European countries started the installation of KM3NeT, the largest detector of neutrinos in the Northern Hemisphere.
Mit Zucker lassen sich besonders wirksame Antikörper formen. Wie das geht, das haben Wissenschaftler der FAU mit Forschern aus Schweden und Kroatien herausgefunden und im Fachjournal „Cell Reports“ veröffentlicht.
FAU has done well in the Bavarian government's digitalisation initiative: two new professorships will be established at the University as part of Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B), one dedicated to e-health/m-health and one focusing on digital industrial service systems.
First and second prize for the first ever HOCHSPRUNG Award have been awarded to members of FAU, demonstrating that the University has an excellent start-up culture and promotes entrepreneurial thinking.
The Japanese Consul General, Hidenao Yanagi, has visited FAU. FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger and Vice President Prof. Dr. Günter Leugering welcomed the Consul General to Erlangen at the Schloss, where he signed FAU's Golden Book.
This is what good teaching looks like: Prof. Dr. Thomas Eberle and Dr. Salah Ata Fakhry have both received the Bavarian government's award recognising good teaching at state universities, the 'Preis für gute Lehre an den staatlichen Universitäten in Bayern'.
To build a particle accelerator the size of a shoe box – this is the goal of a research team being led by FAU and Stanford University in collaboration with eight international partners. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding the project for the next five years with 13.5 million US dollars (approximately 12.5 million euros).
