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Lifting a glass, making a fist, entering a phone number using the index finger: it is amazing the things cutting-edge robotic hands can already do thanks to biomedical technology. However, things that work in the laboratory often encounter stumbling blocks when put to practice in daily life. The pro...

The CHE Master’s ranking 2022 indicates that many Master’s students are very happy with their choice of FAU. The survey focused on engineering subjects and psychology. In the field of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology did particularly well. For the ranking, 10,000 studen...

CRC 1540 "The mechanics of the brain" The DFG has approved the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring of Brain Mechanics". The CRC “Exploring Brain Mechanics” is researching the most complex system of organs that exists – the central nervous system. Despite the enormous advances tha...

Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in ...

Acceptor layers made of oligomers can increase the performance of organic solar cells and ensure a long operating life at the same time. This is the result of a series of complex laboratory experiments conducted by materials scientists at FAU. Organic solar cells are less complex to manufacture than...

FAU has once again performed well in THE subject rankings. This year, for the first time, all 11 of the subjects reviewed made it into the rankings. Engineering holds the best international ranking at 102nd place, while the subject is ranked 5th nationally. In addition to Engineering, Computer Sc...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in recognition for his outstanding contributions to science and technology. The Fellow diploma was presented to Prof. Boccaccini at the EurASc Ceremony 2022,...

All information on the start of the semester 2022/23

The fifth generation of mobile communications 5G was only introduced in 2020, and now the German government is already providing funding for research into its successor. The industrial package 6G-ANNA, in which FAU is involved, is aimed at spurring the development of 6G from Germany and Europe. 6...