Month: September 2017

Filling up with hydrogen

FAU-based scientist publishes feasibility study of carbon dioxide-free heavy goods road transport It will probably always be necessary to transport new machine parts, trainers and cured meats from A to B – at least for the foreseeable future. Goods transport plays an important role in the industria...

Supported liquid metal catalysts – a new generation of reaction accelerators

Chemical engineers, chemists and physicists of the Excellence Cluster Engineering of Advanced Materials at FAU develop a fundamentally new material concept for use in catalysis: Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired p...

A laboratory for innovative ideas

FAU and Siemens Healthineers promote innovation from researchers all over the world: A blood circulation and nerve stimulator for diabetic patients, a low-cost hand prosthesis and a finger cap which cools precisely defined areas of skin are just some of the innovative projects presented by internat...

Scholarships for international students about to graduate

Twice a year the Central Office for International Affairs awards scholarships for international students who are about to finish their degree. The funding for these scholarships is provided by the Bavarian government. Students studying Master’s and State Examination degree programmes are eligible to...

Letting programmes manage their own processing resources

Computers require an increasing amount of processing power to ensure that demanding programs run smoothly. Current technology will not able to keep up for long, and a new concept is needed in the long term: Together with their partners in the SFB/Transregio 89 collaborative project “Invasive Comput...

FAU´s International Career Service

Approximately 4,000 international students are currently enrolled at FAU. After graduation, many of them plan a career in Germany, while others are looking for an internship or a student placement during their time at FAU. One of the university’s core goals is to help students on a successful career...