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Strong position in THE subject ranking engineering and computer science

FAU once more shows what it can do in the second and third subject groups in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking. The second ranking group focuses on engineering and computer science, and the third on subjects including social sciences. In computer science, FAU improved its position, moving ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini elected vice-president of FEMS

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at FAUg, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Society (DGM) in the Executive Committee of FEMS since 2016. He will start his 2-year...

Visiting researcher: Dr. Massimiliano Ditroilo

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...

Application for ARIADNETechNat until 10th October: career mentoring for female students

Until 10 October 2021, female students of Master’s and State Examination programmes, who are interested in further academic qualification can apply for admission to the career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat master 2022 with programme runtime January – October 2022. ARIADNETech...

A standard for artificial intelligence in biomedicine

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...

Visiting researcher: Dr. Maria Pozzi

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...

Cultivating aquatic microorganisms in the laboratory

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...

Join FAU to study for a better future!

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 ...

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Solar technology: Always up to date with the current state of research

The world’s first scientific database for photovoltaic technology recently went online. The idea for the database came from researchers at FAU and its aim is to accelerate advances in photovoltaic research. If we are ever to move away completely from nuclear energy and coal, we must secure our ener...