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Telecommunication Engineering once more in first place in Germany. In the latest Shanghai ranking, FAU is once more among the world’s best 100 universities in five subjects, including four times in Engineering: Energy Science and Engineering (46th place), Telecommunication Engineering (58), Metallu...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at FAU. The aim of CRC 1483 is to create sensor technology and gather movement data for the human body. Every movement made by a living organism is the result of countless processes inside the body and com...

The Cluster of Excellence EAM is launching a new round of calls for the EAM Starting Grants. This way EAM aims at investing in the most talented researchers in the New Materials and Processes environment at FAU. The EAM Starting Grant is a measure to bring new ideas and new people into the cluster’s...

Magnets could be used to remove plastic particles Environmental pollution caused by microplastics and nanoplastics is a ubiquitous problem which cannot be tackled using currently available cleaning concepts. Researchers at FAU have now demonstrated how magnets could be used to remove plastic partic...

Rotating microrobots behave like water, oil and soap You need soap to remove dirt from your skin. The surfactant molecules it contains squeeze their way into the surface area between the dirt and the skin and help to dissolve the dirt in water. Researchers at FAU and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düss...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research group in photonics: How cracks are formed Lasers are a widely used tool in manufacturing technology that enables contactless and highly-automated joining of workpieces. One of the greatest difficulties in this process is that solidific...

NITech has awarded Prof. Dr. Peter Greil an honorary doctorate on March 15, 2021. Professor Greil was a visiting professor at NITech from 2010 to 2015 and a consultant for the Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science from 2015. He has advanced the conclusion of the academic exchange agre...