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After two years of digital excursions, the MAP Office offered an in-person excursion to Zollhof Tech Incubator on 9 December 2022. As a start-up hub, Zollhof is an expert in innovation and idea development. The excursion was planned to introduce students to the concept of innovation, creativity, as ...

My name is Zarifa Huseynova, I am from Azerbaijan and I am a first year MAP student at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. I graduated from the French-Azerbaijani University, which is a joint degree programme of ASOIU (Azerbaijan State Oil) and the University of Strasbourg, with a distinction diploma. During my ...

When I first came to Germany in 2017 for an internship at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin, I was immediately fascinated with the world of research and materials science. That one experience propelled my interest so much that, while choosing a master's programme, ...

The MAP Pretzel Talk is a series of irregular extra-curricular career and research-related events for MAP students. Accomplished MAP alumni Dr. Kasra Sardashti hosted such a talk while on a visit to Erlangen on Monday 5 December 2022. Dr. Sardashti, who proudly describes himself as an American, I...

On Wednesday 18 May 2022, I opened my email inbox to find a letter from Imperial College Business School. An application for a scholarship to attend the three-week summer school on Strategy and Business Consulting was successful! A sense of happiness filled me up. Attending this summer school was a ...

My name is Diana Bekenova and I am from Kazakhstan. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Koc University, Turkey. I am currently a first-semester student of the Elite Master’s Programme “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) at FAU, Germany. I decided to apply for the Collaborat...

MAP lecturer Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering and PD Dr. Philipp Spitzer from the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy have received the Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Bavarian Ministry of Science in recognition of their outstanding teaching. What...

We participated in the JEBE Business Games at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy from 25 to 27 November 2022. The European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA) is an alliance of nine European universities from Paris, Madrid, Budapest, Bucharest, Istanbul,...

Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in ...

The CHE Master’s ranking 2022 indicates that many Master’s students are very happy with their choice of FAU. The survey focused on engineering subjects and psychology. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Psychology did particularly well. For the ranking, 10,000 students were asked ...