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We welcome our 18 new MAP students from 14 nations and 4 continents. We are excited about this great mix of cultures and academic backgrounds, especially as it is often difficult to get a visa for foreign students. Our newcomers have been hand-picked out of 654 applications. We hope that all of them... Continue

Every five years, our international Master’s programme Advanced Materials and Processes is evaluated by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB). Only after a positive assessment by both the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and an independent group of experts, a study program can continue t... Continue

Ms Marcela Arango Ospina, who graduated from the FAU Elite Master program Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP), has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2018  (1st prize) for her Master thesis: "Design and development of Ag-doped mesoporous bioactive glass based scaffolds derive... Continue

A love of steel Is there anything new we can learn about steel? Peter Felfer, junior professor at the Chair of General Materials Science is often asked this question whenever he talks about steel, an area of research which he is particularly enthusiastic about. ‘Steel is of such importance that e... Continue

On 6 July 2018, the MAP students of the second semester visited the adidas facility in Herzogenaurach. MAP student Elpida Zormpa reports: The trip started with a short stroll around the adidas campus. A presentation followed, where the mentality of the adidas Future team was introduced and some o... Continue

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held in Budapest, Hungary, on 12th July 2018,  MAP focal subject head Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) was elected unanimously to serve a second period as member of the FEMS Executive Comm... Continue

In the new overview on research funding by the DFG, the Materials Scientists of FAU obtained the most funding of all German Universities! Erlangen's Chemical and Bio-Engineers ranked 5th Germany wide. The DFG provides more information in German.  Continue

Second semester MAP student Sharanya Nair shares about her participation in the Fraunhofer IISB summer school on Crystal Growth 2018, which is part of the MAP soft skills program: “I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” – Dorothy Hodgkin The summer school on Crystal Growth offe... Continue

Several students from the MAP class started in 2017 report on the MAP international dinner: On 26 April, 2018 the first international dinner of the elite Master’s programme Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP) took place. The MAP office invited all lecturers, MAP seniors and other in MAP intere... Continue

No corners or edges - Chemical engineer from FAU receives 2.5 million euros from European Research Council for research into new reaction accelerators. Continue