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The 2023 Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to the discovery and the tuning of light emission of semiconductor nanoparticles, known as quantum dots. These tiny particles emit light with unprecedented purity and can be applied in many different fields, including light emitting devices, such as d...

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On 14 June 2025, the Elite Cup football tournament brought together students from various Elite Master’s programs across Bavaria and this year, MAP was proud to join with its own team! We traveled by train from Erlangen to the Olympia Campus E11 in Munich, where the matches took place in the heart o...

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FAU supports its top students as part of the Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) program. Each semester, scholarships of 3,600 euros for one year are awarded to the most gifted students. The unique feature of this scholarship is that half of the money comes from companies, donors, friends of...

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As a Master’s student in Advanced Materials and Process Engineering, I recently engaged in a transformative educational experience at Mines Paris - PSL. The course, "Managing the Unknown – Design Theory and Methods for Innovation," was set in the scenic Luxembourg Gardens, blending the beauty of nat...

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MAP Focal Subject Head Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. The award was conferred at the ceremony of the Grand Opening of the new building of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence...

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It has already become a tradition that the third semester MAP students choose their best lecturer and announce them in a small speech after the annual MAP Poster Session. This year, the students chose Prof. Robin Klupp Taylor and Prof. Marco Haumann as their best lecturers. Below you can read the sp...

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On 22nd January 2025, the renowned MAP Poster Session was held with the same brilliance as in previous years at the Faculty of Engineering at FAU Erlangen - Nürnberg. The session was a combination of joy and enthralling moments, featuring many scientific discussions and acquisition - not only for MA...

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Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) at FAU, MAP Focal Subject Head for “Biomaterials and Bioprocessing”, has been selected as the winner of the George Winter Award 2024 of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). The George Winter Award was established by the ESB ...

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Curious to know more about supraparticles? On YouTube you can find a presentation of MAP Chair Prof. Nicolas Vogel on the latest developments of his research. This talk is part of the session “Particles empowering tomorrow: Innovations for our global world” at ParTec 2025.

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