Tag: research

“Grasp Again” project presents itself to the Federal President

Federal President Steinmeier visited Erlangen as part of the series of events entitled “Workshop for change”. In the innovation hub Medical Valley Center Erlangen, five teams from the healthcare sector presented their projects, including “GraspAgain”, a start-up initiated by a research team at FAU l...

A thin film of air protects materials from liquids and pathogens

Several insects use a trick to dive into water without getting wet: tiny structures on their surface trap a thin film of air that protects the animals.Together with an international team of researchers, Dr. Alexander B. Tesler from the Chair of Corrosion and Surface Technology and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang...

ERC Starting Grants for Professor Silvia Budday and Professor Alessandro Del Vecchio

Young researchers receive millions of euros in EU funding Funding from the European Research Council (ERC) is highly competitive. Receiving this funding not only provides researchers new impetus because of the high funding amounts of up to 1.5 million euros over a period of five years, but also rec...

Using digital systems to reduce cable clutter for on-board networks in vehicles

Vehicle on-board networks have played a central role ever since the introduction of electric cars. The cable clutter in each car represents the increase in electrification of vehicles which will one day enable autonomous driving with safety-critical functions. This will finally transform on-board ne...

Cleaning water with ‘smart rust’ and magnets

Pouring flecks of rust into water usually makes it dirtier. But researchers of FAU have developed special iron oxide nanoparticles they call “smart rust” that actually makes it cleaner. Smart rust can attract many substances, including oil, nano- and microplastics, as well as the herbicide glyphosat...

Walk from the department to the bakery with LOMOBI

The project “LOMOBI – Learning assistance system for orientation and mobility of visually impaired persons in everyday life” was launched this year at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems (FAPS). Led by medical engineer Sina Martin, researchers at FAU will develop a system wit...

New Distinguished Professorship of Applied Quantum Technologies

“Anyone who might have dared to suggest controlling a single photon, let alone an electron, 20 years ago would have been considered to have lost touch with reality,” states quantum engineer Professor Roland Nagy. Today, researchers like him and his team at FAU are even able to use the effects of suc...

Lasers and Photonics Summer School – Princeton and FAU revive cooperation

There’s nothing like personal exchange, especially in high complex fields like laser technology or photonics applications. After a COVID break of almost four years, eight doctoral candidates from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Princeton University again met for a week of...