Research

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...

Second round of DFG funding for developing innovative electrically active implants. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1270 ‘Electrically Active Implants – ELAINE’ (coordinated by Universität Rostock) is researching electrically active implants capable of regenerating bones and cartilage or st...

Researchers at FAU discover a scientific error Ever since a team of researchers published an article in 2015 that seemed to prove that proteins continue to age during their entire lifetime without ever reaching a stationary state, this has been taken as fact by the scientific community. FAU researc...

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...

Materials scientist Prof. Dr. Ken-ichi Kakimoto from NITech in Japan is the new FAU Ambassador and also the vice president of the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) in Japan. He has maintained close ties to FAU for more than 10 years now. In 2020, he was awarded the title of FAU Ambassador in r...

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...