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It is not easy to send individual photons from an aircraft in a targeted manner, capture them in a ground station, and also detect them. Researchers have now succeeded in doing exactly that: They even measured various quantum channels between an aircraft and a ground station several times, sent photons to an ion trap, and tested technologies for quantum key distribution.

A current study could lead to completely new therapeutic approaches against diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis and cancer in the medium term. The results show that a mechanism called durotaxis plays a key role in the progression of both diseases. FAU was also involved in the work led by Harvard Medical School in the USA.

In the year of quantum research, three scientists from this discipline are being particularly honored: they are receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics. The researchers created a basis for the development of the next generation of quantum technology. These topics are also being researched at FAU and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen.

On October 6, FAU Vice President People Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch signed the Erlangen Declaration in the town hall. Alongside other stakeholders from the city of Erlangen, FAU was also one of the first signatories.

Every year, FAU welcomes its new students with the FAU Freshman Welcome Ceremony in the Heinrich-Lades-Halle in Erlangen and on the WiSo campus in Nuremberg. In Erlangen, the president and the university management welcomed the new freshmen, there was a DJ set and:  The new FAU backpacks!

In the recently published international THE World University Ranking, FAU is again among the top 10 percent of participating universities internationally in 2025: In a global comparison of almost 2,200 universities, FAU achieved 206th place overall.

Interdisciplinary FAU project uses Roman boat to work with young people As the F.A.N., one of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg’s Roman vessels, crossed the Altmühlsee lake at the beginning of August, the crew was not made up of the team that usually sits at the oars of the replica ...

When killer cells of the immune system encounter signs of infection, some of them divide rapidly. However, this is by no means the case for every single killer cell. What criterion determines whether they multiply or not? Researchers from FAU, the University Hospital Erlangen and Helmholtz Munich have investigated this question.

State-of-the-art technology for research: The Center for National High Performance Computing Erlangen at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (NHR@FAU) has officially inaugurated the currently most powerful supercomputer at universities in Germany with a festive colloquium.

A team of doctors at the German Center for Immunotherapy at Erlangen University Hospital has succeeded for the first time in the world in treating a young patient with therapy-resistant, severe chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis) with cell therapy using CD19 CAR T cells.