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FAU Alumnus Michael Kobr has been writing the popular detective stories about Inspector Kluftinger with his school friend Peter Klüpfel for 20 years. Already during his studies at FAU, he was praised for his writing talent in term papers and exams. In an interview with the FAU Alumni management, he tells us how he became a crime novel author and a lot more.

The most efficient solar module in the world at the current time has been developed by FAU and HI ERN. This proves that organic photovoltaic technology can rival silicon and the like in the future.

She is the first woman to head the German Chess Association and an information security expert at Deutsche Bank: FAU alumna Ingrid Lauterbach. In an interview with the FAU Alumni Management, Ingrid Lauterbach reports on her time studying at our FAU and reveals why we should all perhaps play chess.

Scientists at FAU are conducting research into multidrug-resistant germs. Their research is to receive a total of nearly one million euros in funding from the Leibniz “Cooperative excellence” program.

Researchers at FAU hope to develop a new procedure aimed at gaining pure hydrogen from biological waste. The BMBF has approved approximately 3.2 million euros in funding for the project. 

Cholesterol plays a decisive role in the elasticity of cell membranes. Researchers at FAU have now discovered that cholesterol has a remarkable double role: It not only contributes to making the membrane thicker and more impenetrable, but surprisingly also softer.

Major success for Sandra Jeleazcov: She developed an app that paves the way for new approaches to patient communication. Using virtual reality, the application informs patients suffering from lupus about the rare immune disease.

Dr. Michael Ziegler from the Chair of Business and Social Psychology at FAU explains what resilience has to do with a relaxing time during Advent and how we can increase our resilience.

Prof. Dr. Louisa Kulke, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology knows what happens in the human brain when we are shopping for gifts and which areas of the brain are active when we give gifts.

Each semester, FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger sets out to visit professors who have just recently joined FAU. At the Uniklinikum Erlangen he meets Prof. Dr. Frederike Zunke.