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Funding for scientists in heart research Cardiac diseases such as heart failure affect the ability of the cardiac muscle to pump blood. This leads to an increased residual filling pressure in the muscle, which places strain on the cell walls. The scientists Prof. Dr. Oliver Friedrich, Chair of Medi...

The 2019 Shanghai Ranking has been published, and FAU is among the world’s top 100 universities in five subjects. Energy Science and Engineering, at 37, and Telecommunication Engineering, at 41, were ranked among the top 50. National improvement FAU has improved compared to other German universiti...

on 22 November 2019

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome its international beginners with general orientation events in English. Date: September 2 to 5, 2019 and October 1 to 3, 2019 These days include a welcoming event with information about getting started in Erlangen (health insurance, city registr...

Scientists at FAU develop a method for accelerating deep learning processes. Deep learning involves machines learning using neural networks. However, they have to learn from scratch each time they are used in a different area. Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) h...

FAU researchers describe a further scenario for cluster formation Possibly one of the most intensively discussed topics in the field of physics is the effect of inelastic collapse in the dynamics of dissipative hard sphere systems, a particle model which is often used to simulate granular materials...

Around 950,000 euros for cooperation projects at FAU In conjunction with partners from science and business, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has received up to 939,000 euros in funding from the Bavarian Research Foundation for three pioneering cooperation projects. Science m...

New round in Emerging Talents Initiative: apply now! The aim of the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) is to support young researchers at FAU. With the programme, FAU encourages excellent young researchers to venture into independent research and make a name for themselves in their field. Deadline ...

FAU and MIT to collaborate even more closely The MIT Germany programme, a cooperation between FAU and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), promotes joint projects in research and teaching. One of these projects is the Global Teaching Labs, which Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier from the Departm...

Sunday at 5 am: While the sun has only just started rising, a group of students are already loading their cars with tools, cables, oil, brake fluid and everything else you need to test racing cars. They are the Octanes and have just built a new racing car for the international Formula Student competition, as they do every year.