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FAU receives 2.25 million euros for improving industrial 3D printing processes Research at the Chair of Photonic Technologies (LPT) at FAU is focused on laser-based 3D printing processes using metallic powder materials. The 3D printing process known as Direct Energy Deposition (DED) can be used to ...

DFG provides research group at FAU funding for a further three years What causes manufacturing deviations, and how do they affect the quality of technical products? Since 2016, the research group FOR2271 ‘Process-oriented tolerance management with virtual assurance methods’ has been investigating t...

FAU Engineers receives funding of 1.7 million euros to purchase a unique measuring system as part of the DFG major research instrumentation initiative Increasing volumes of data have to be transferred more rapidly than ever before: the demands placed on wireless and mobile communication technologie...

Glyphosate is not only one of the most widely-used herbicides in the world, but also one of the most controversial chemical compounds, as it is suspected of being carcinogenic. In a study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, a team of researchers from FAU have demonstrated how glyphosate ...

High-performance devices for digital transformation Highly efficient power semiconductors are to pave the way for a wide range of novel applications – from e-mobility to artificial intelligence. This is the objective of the recently launched joint project “power transistors based on AlN (ForMikro-L...

Just as doctors make their medical skills available to people all over the world ('Doctors without Borders') - Technik ohne Grenzen e.V. ('Technology without Borders') offers technical enthusiasts to put their technical expertise to meaningful use in the service of others. As a student you get the o...

11,000 votes cast, 10 selected AI newcomers and one FAU doctoral candidate: Elisabeth Hoppe from the Chair of Pattern Recognition has been voted AI Newcomer of the Year together with nine other nominees. Elisabeth Hoppe is completing a doctoral degree at FAU in the area of quantitative MR imaging in...

Professor Tentzeris graduated from Ionidios Model School of Piraeus, receiving his degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece, and then M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Mic...

Prestigious EU funding: FAU involved in international doctoral network FAU is involved in a new European training network for doctoral researchers. The 14 research projects focus on the question of how to improve modelling and simulation of complex mechanical systems on computers in future. The Eur...

Humboldt Research Award winner and guest researcher at the Institute of Materials Simulations Prof. Dr. Zapperi is professor for theoretical physics of condensed matter and coordinator of the Center for Complexity & Biosystems (CC&B) at the University of Milan, Italy. He studied physics at ...