August 2025

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21AUG 2025
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New Image Brochure of the Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering has published its new image brochure! The brochure provides a concise overview of the faculty and its departments, offers information about degree programs and research focuses, and presents key facts and figures. The brochure is now available both digitally and in printed form, and can be used for informational purposes, presentations, […]
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19AUG 2025
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WomenInScience@TF networking event: Balancing the Care Concentration Gap
All FAU female students and female scientists are warmly invited to attend the next WomenInScience@TF networking event on the topic „(Future) Mothers in Science – Balancing the Care Concentration Gap.“ Date & Time: September 15, 2025 from 10 AM – 3 PMLocation: H12, Cauerstr. 11, Erlangen The Keynote Speech is given by Dr. Wiebke Vogelaar, who is […]
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14AUG 2025
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Young Research Award: Using optical technologies in the fight against bowel cancer
Dr. Alba Alfonso García is the winner of the Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The prize is worth 100,000 euros. With the Young Researcher Award, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) at FAU recognizes early career researchers for their outstanding research, invites them for a research […]Dr. Alba Alfonso García is the winner of the Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). The prize is worth 100,000 euros. With the Young Researcher Award, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) at FAU recognizes early career researchers for their outstanding research, invites them for a research […]
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06AUG 2025
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AI project to make charred papyrus roles legible
EU finances international research collaboration involving FAU: A unique collection of papyrus scrolls fell victim to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. They were rediscovered in the 18th century, but the carbonized scrolls are badly charred, fused together, and remain largely illegible. An international project involving the Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern […]
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06AUG 2025
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AI analyzes swallowing process
Computer scientists at FAU develop a tool for automatically analyzing results of barium swallow tests: Using AI to analyze the swallowing process, especially in elderly individuals and Parkinson’s patients, can make assessments far more objective and precise. FAU Biomedical computer scientists from Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist’s research group have developed a tool that automatically analyzes […]
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06AUG 2025
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FORnanoSatellites: Around 1.8 million euros for research into small satellites
Satellites that are as small as a shoe box are called small satellites. A research project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is now investigating how to maximize their technical potential. The long-term goal of “FORnanoSatellites” is to set up automated small series production of small satellites in Bavaria. The Bavarian Research Foundation is providing around 1.8 […]Satellites that are as small as a shoe box are called small satellites. A research project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is now investigating how to maximize their technical potential. The long-term goal of “FORnanoSatellites” is to set up automated small series production of small satellites in Bavaria. The Bavarian Research Foundation is providing around 1.8 […]
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