Research

Erlangen receives two international research awards With a prestigious award and funding amounting to 1.9 million euros, Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid from the Department of Chemical Reaction Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has reason to be pleased. The ...

European Research Council rates research proposal as excellent Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch, from the Department for Organic Chemistry 2 at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, and his research team received an "Advanced Investigator Grant" from the European Research Council (ERC). The research project “Grap...

EU PLATO-N project on software-supported structural optimisation Holes don’t weigh anything – that’s hardly surprising. But, if your aim is weight reduction, it becomes apparent how useful empty spaces can be. However, they don’t contribute to stability. That is why constructions that must be both ...