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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 75 years ago. Prof. Dr. Michael Krennerich explains the challenges the protection of human rights is faced with today.

Prof. Dr. Carolin Müller – Assistant Professor for the Theory of Electronically Excited States is on the trail of light-induced processes.

FAU alumni live and work all over the world - including Martin Grosse. He was a law student and now works independently in the HR industry. He explains how he found his way in the video series FAU Alumni #JobInsights.

Prof. Dr. Alessandro Del Vecchio will receive funding of roughly 1.6 million euros from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the form of an Emmy Noether program to learn how the central nervous system controls human movement.

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials), Department of Materials Science and Engineering at FAU, has been elected Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE), the highest honor the global biomaterials community can bestow on outstanding biomaterials scientists, ...

The DFG is providing funding for one new collaborative research center/transregio (CFC/TRR) and for a further funding period for a second. For both projects, a total of 23.5 million euros will be provided to FAU over the next four years.

Two researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. The ERC Consolidator Grant entails two million euros in funding over a funding period of five years.

Once again, FAU has successfully demonstrated its strength in innovation and research. In the current funding round, the University has succeeded in winning not one, but two more Humboldt professorships: Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg and Prof. Dr. Eva Pils.

This year, the Federal President’s prize for technology and innovation has been awarded to a team from Erlangen. Prof. Dr. Michael Uder and his two team colleagues from Siemens Healthineers have been awarded the German Future Prize 2023.

On October 13, 2023 in Munich, the HOCHSPRUNG Award was presented to startup projects from Bavarian universities. This year, the award was presented to startups who make a contribution to solving the challenges posed by the climate and energy crises. Startups from FAU won the second and one of the third prizes.