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Up to 100 Students, lecturers, researchers, MAP staff and guests gathered to explore and discuss 27 high quality posters from the 2020 batch of students.

With funding of more than 12 million Euros the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB)/Transregio 225 project “From the basics of biofabrication to functional tissue models” is starting the second phase in January 2022. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is led by our MAP ...

During your studies, you have the opportunity to explore different topics and areas through internships or miniprojects. The multidisciplinary nature of MAP means that many doors are open to you. One of these opportunities is the Talent Programme at Zollhof. This internship programme starts  every 3...

MAP follows the careers of its alumni with great interest. We therefore congratulate our two MAP alumni Eric Görlitzer and Junwei Wang, who very successfully completed their PhD studies in the research group of MAP chair Prof. Nicolas Vogel at the Institute of Particle Technology.   E...

Prof. Erik Bitzek left FAU on 31 August 2021 to continue his research work in the field of microstructure & mechanics (Department Computational Materials Design) at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH in Düsseldorf. The team and all those involved in the Elite Master's Programme "...

Many of our first semester MAP students have still not arrived in Erlangen. Therefore, MAP offers opportunities outside of the digital classroom to meet with peers in inofficial settings. One of them has been an online exit game on 15th January, 2021. Katja Wadlinger reports: Friday afternoon,...

How can hydrogen make a crucial contribution to environmentally friendly mobility? How can a deeper understanding of our immune system lead to new treatments for infections, tumours and autoimmune diseases? And how can new polymer materials be developed which are suitable for use on and in the human...

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the German federal states announced at its meeting on 13 November 2020 that FAU will receive funds to establish a National Centre for High Performance Computing (NHR). The National Centre for High Performance Computing (NHR@FAU) will open on 1 January 2021, as p...

Organic solar cells are cheaper to produce and more flexible than their counterparts made of crystalline silicon, but do not offer the same level of efficiency or stability. A group of researchers led by Prof. Christoph Brabec, Director of the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Techno...