Research

FAU researchers help develop research infrastructure in Slovakia: “FunGlass” is the title of an EU project with funds of 15 million euros aimed at establishing a new centre of excellence in the Slovakian city of Trencin.

In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research, Carolin Freier researched new ways for integrating the long-term unemployed into the labour market in her doctoral thesis.

FAU has an excellent international reputation. This is reflected in the large number of renowned international researchers who choose FAU as their host university as part of a fellowship or research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

For the first time, FAU engineers have succeeded in producing complex crystal lattices, so-called clathrates, from nanoparticles using DNA strands. Their findings have recently been published in the acclaimed journal ‘Science’.

Canadian Dr. Mike Sinding has been a fellow at ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, from 2015 until 2017, where he worked on his postdoctoral project “Genre Dynamics and Functions: Blending, Framing and Worldview”. The focus of his research is on defining cognitive models of tragedy, comedy, their blended forms, and their roles in framing political discourse.

In a test reactor, FAU material researchers succeeded in producing the world’s largest diamond foil with a diameter of 28 centimetres.

Art historians have succeeded in identifying the creator of a drawing masterwork in the collection held at the FAU University Library

Physicists at FAU have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. In the near future, their method could be used to develop electron microscopes suitable for ultra-short time scales such as needed for observing the motion of atoms.

Chemists at FAU have developed a process in which nitrogen oxides generated during industrial processes can be used in the manufacture of colourants and medicines

Prof. Dr. Erik Bitzek has consistently followed his passion for materials, their structures, and their breaking points. Now he has received a coveted ERC consolidator scholarship worth two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC).