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PhD candidates, PostDocs and Junior Professors who want to give a boost to their scientific career are invited to apply for the 25/27 group. The program period is from July 2025 to January 2027. ARIADNE mentoring provides guidance concerning interdisciplinary topics: career planning, build...

Welcome to the winter semester 2024/25 We would like to welcome you to the Faculty of Engineering and wish you every success in your studies! At the beginning of your studies, many questions arise that we will be happy to answer. For this purpose, various welcome and first semester introductions...

A research team, including Prof. David Blumenthal from AIBE, has developed guidelines to prevent AI data leaks. These leaks occur when information is improperly transferred between training and test data, leading to unreliable results. Prof. Blumenthal emphasized that while popular ML frame...

Is academic and entrepreneurial success possible without a personal network? – Find out how important well-functioning networks are for your career! Take part in the interactive lecture, panel discussion and meet women with experience in science and industry. All female students and scientists of...

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Annual Meeting 2024 took place under the motto #AvHBridgeBuilders and was a celebration of encounters that enabled the Foundation's sponsorship recipients to get to know and meet other researchers - and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier - in person. ...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended the International Research Training Group 2495 “Energy Conversion Systems: from Materials to Components”. The Research Training Group was established at FAU in 2019. The objective of this research training group is to research electro-mechanical (...

The smartphone in your jacket pocket, LEDs for lighting your home and electronics for your charger, solar panels or your electric vehicle all have one thing in common: they depend on semiconductor materials and their properties. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) ...

Like in previous years, Materials Science is listed as the best subject at FAU on the international list, and at place 74, it is among the top 100 in the world. With other subjects from the Faculty of Engineering, FAU have made it into the top 200 in the world: Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engin...

The mechanics of biological tissue are the inspiration behind developing new soft materials using artificial intelligence. That is the aim of the “Discover” project that Prof. Dr. Ellen Kuhl, one of the leading specialists in bioengineering, will launch at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nü...

The Faculty of Engineering has recently joined Instagram - are you already following us? On this profile, we provide insights into the many facets of our faculty. Because there are so many exciting things happening here at the same time! What happens on our campus? What does everyday life l...