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FAU Excellence Graduate School awards prize for young researchers The 'Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies' (SAOT) of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will award the fifth 100,000 euro research prize, the 'Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical T...

FAU researchers study how the elderly best access the Internet A new study conducted by FAU's Institute for Learning Innovation (Institut für Lern-Innovation, ILI) is to find out whether it is easier for senior citizens to familiarise themselves with the Internet using a tablet PC or a regular comp...

Geologists demonstrate that volcanic arcs are fed by rapid fluid pulses In the depths of the earth, it is anything but peaceful: Large quantities of liquids carve their way through the rock as fluids, causing magma to form. A research team which the geologist Prof. Dr. Reiner Klemd from Friedrich...

Latest DFG Funding Atlas confirms FAU's strength in research Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of Germany's most successful universities when it comes to raising funding for research. This fact was confirmed by the DFG Funding Atlas recently published by the German Rese...

FAU materials scientists participate in European research project Manufacturing an artificially produced material as a medical substitute for human bone tissue with micro capsules containing medication which speed up the healing process: this is one of the objectives of ITN Biobone – a new European...

Scientists discover a metabolic poison which causes nerve damage Damage to the peripheral nerves is found in 60% of individuals with diabetes. Diabetic neuropathy paradoxically causes sporadic pain and increased sensitivity on the one hand, and impaired perception of external pain sources on the ot...

New Bavarian research network finances FAU projects Two projects of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will be funded by the recently established Bavarian Research Network for Molecular Biosystems (BioSysNet): Dr. Beate Winner from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Rese...

Professor Robert Schober acclaimed at award ceremony in Berlin Prof. Dr. Robert Schober of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was one of the six top international scientists who were awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at a ceremony in Berlin. Federal Education Mi...

FAU scientist given award for ground-breaking contributions to materials research Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch, Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), has been awarded the Max Grundig Memorial Award 2012. The Max Grundig Foundation rewards the outsta...

Hans Böckler Foundation supports cooperative research training group A new cooperative research group is being established at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Lutheran University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg (EVHN) and the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Scienc...