News

Every semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors in their departments. In episode 27, the President visits Prof. Dr. Sarah Neckar. She holds the Chair of Economics and heads the Ludwig Erhard ifo Research Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics.

Universities attach great importance to being well ahead in international and national comparisons. There are many rankings of this kind: Shanghai Ranking, THE Ranking, QS Ranking. FAU is also listed in these three renowned university rankings. But what do they actually say? And what influence do they have? We have answers to the most frequently asked questions.

FAU has once again improved its position in the current Shanghai Ranking 2025: in the international comparison, the university has moved up four places to 242nd place. Nationally, FAU has improved by one place to 17th place. In the category "Academic per capita performance of an institution", FAU is once again among the hundred best universities in the world at 95th place.

FAU student Yaroslava Larionova has received the Dietrich and Elke Möller Foundation scholarship since October 2024. Since 2022, Dietrich and Elke Möller have been supporting Ukrainian students and doctoral candidates at FAU with one-year scholarships, which are part of the KNU-FAU alliance. In this interview, Yaroslava Larionova talks about her time with the scholarship.

The Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in Erlangen is just one of three centers worldwide that are fitting smart cochlea implants for the first time “You could compare it with the leap in innovation from cellphones with keypads to smartphones,” says Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Hoppe...

Under the well-known motto "Run against cancer", this year marks the 12th anniversary of the charity event in Erlangen's beautiful castle gardens: On October 11, 2025. Register now!

Dr. Alba Alfonso García is the winner of FAU's Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies. The prize is endowed with 100,000 euros. With the Young Researcher Award, the SAOT honors young scientists for their outstanding research.

The QUBE research mission funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), in which FAU researchers are also involved, will test newly developed quantum communication technologies in space for the first time using miniature satellites. This will lay the foundation for ensuring the tap-proof, worldwide transmission of data in the future.

Immigrants in Germany and eight other countries earn significantly lower incomes on average than natives. These are the findings of a study conducted by an international research team with the participation of FAU. The study has been published in the scientific journal Nature.

A study by a research team from the Institute of Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg suggests that the famous Perito Moreno glacier is shrinking rapidly. The glacier was previously considered stable.