Year: 2021

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Dr. Massimiliano Ditroilo from the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science at the University College Dublin. Mr. Ditroilo’s research interests include neuromuscular function in sports performance, injury risk a...

New web registry AIMe aims to improve work with AI methods An international research team with participants from several universities including the FAU has proposed a standardized registry for artificial intelligence (AI) work in biomedicine to improve the reproducibility of results and create trus...

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Maria Pozzi from SIRSLab, University of Siena. She is visiting Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle, Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics from 16 September to 6 October 2021. Ms. Pozzi's research interests include human-robot interaction, rehabilita...

We are aiming fto have an attendance semester with regular occupancy of the lecture halls and seminar rooms for the winter semester 2021/22.

Multicultural microbes A new collaborative research project involving FAU is working to cultivate communities of microorganisms under laboratory conditions. The aim is to develop a bioreactor which can simulate the microbes’ natural habitats. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) ha...

Second round of DFG funding for developing innovative electrically active implants. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1270 ‘Electrically Active Implants – ELAINE’ (coordinated by Universität Rostock) is researching electrically active implants capable of regenerating bones and cartilage or st...

The recently published Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carries a dire warning of the potentially irreversible consequences of following the current trend of global warming. Extreme events, such as the huge wildfires ...

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...