Month: August 2023

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers of FAU have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles they call “smart rust” that actually makes it cleaner. Smart rust can attract many substances, including oil, nano- and microplastics, as well as the herbicide glyphosat...

The project “LOMOBI – Learning assistance system for orientation and mobility of visually impaired persons in everyday life” was launched this year at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS). Led by medical engineer Sina Martin, researchers at FAU will develop a system wit...

Gender and power structures in academia Join the event on September 14, and learn more about the interrelationship between gender and power structures at universities and to discuss challenges and successful strategies. As always in our WomenInScience@TF serie there will be plenty of time for di...

Humboldt Research Fellow Image: Pingfang Li My research areas Wireless communication and networking, especially low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation communication. Home University / Research Institute Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Host research group Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Ge...

Forest fires are no longer only restricted to southern European regions, they are now increasingly also a problem in Germany. The interdisciplinary project Evolonic from FAU and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) is focusing on developing effective solutions...

Humboldt Research Fellow Prof. Dr. Verónica Krapovickas (Image: Juan Pablo Vittori, Exactas UBA) My research areas I am interested in the co-evolution of animals and their environments, particularly in how ecosystem composition has changed through time and in response to major events in the hist...

Humboldt Research Fellow My research areas My research interests are in the broad area of wireless communications. Particularly I focus on optical wireless communications, i.e., the use of modulated light to transfer information. On top of that, I am also interested in the design and optimizatio...

The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzo...

“Anyone who might have dared to suggest controlling a single photon, let alone an electron, 20 years ago would have been considered to have lost touch with reality,” states quantum engineer Professor Roland Nagy. Today, researchers like him and his team at FAU are even able to use the effects of suc...

Visiting Professor from Johns Hopkins University Prof. Alejandro Martin-Gomez is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA). He focuses on Augmented R...