Month: July 2021

Perpetual ageing of proteins remains unproven

Researchers at FAU discover a scientific error Ever since a team of researchers published an article in 2015 that seemed to prove that proteins continue to age during their entire lifetime without ever reaching a stationary state, this has been taken as fact by the scientific community. FAU researc...

83 million euros in third-party funding

received by the Faculty of Engineering

Solar technology: Always up to date with the current state of research

The world’s first scientific database for photovoltaic technology recently went online. The idea for the database came from researchers at FAU and its aim is to accelerate advances in photovoltaic research. If we are ever to move away completely from nuclear energy and coal, we must secure our ener...

The personal and professional benefits of exchanges

Materials scientist Prof. Dr. Ken-ichi Kakimoto from NITech in Japan is the new FAU Ambassador and also the vice president of the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) in Japan. He has maintained close ties to FAU for more than 10 years now. In 2020, he was awarded the title of FAU Ambassador in r...

Application period started: ARIADNETechNat career mentoring for female students

Until 10 October 2021, female students of Master’s and State Examination programmes, who are interested in further academic qualification can apply for admission to the career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat master 2022 with programme runtime January – October 2022. ARIADNETech...