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The Summer School "Technologies for Biofabrication", organised in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 225) "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” has started on Monday 20th July 2020, with an introduction by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, ... Continue

A team of scientists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has developed a novel mechanical cleaning method for surfaces on the nanoscale. The technique successfully removes even the tiniest contaminants down to the atomic scale, achieving an unprecedented level of cleanliness. ... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials and MAP Focal Subject Head) celebrates 10 years as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Materials Letters. The journal is one of the "classical" journals in the field of materials science and engineering, which was founded in 1982, and it has seen a cont... Continue

FAU is one of the top 200 universities worldwide in four subjects. This becomes evident from the current QS World University Ranking by Subject, which the service provider for educational information, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, has published. Materials science performed particularly well with a rank i... Continue

On the evening of 5th February, FAU students, academic and administrative staff convened for the MAP graduation ceremony of three graduates from the Elite Master’s Programme “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) and for the 2018 MAP batch poster presentation. During the MAP poster presentation... Continue

The annual Technology and Management International Business Plan Competition (T&M IBPC, 2020) held in Sao Paulo, Brazil form 5th January through 14th January, 2020 provides students from University of Bayreuth, Germany, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Univer... Continue

On 16 December 2019, some of the MAP students attended an excursion to the Bionicum in Nuremberg as part of the course "Biomimetic synthesis of materials" under the supervision and coordination of Prof. Stephan Wolf. The excursion started with a warm welcome by the tour guide of the Bionicum muse... Continue

Excursions are a must for students, not only for its educational values but also as an opportunity for students to have recreational experience. After the first excursion to Bayreuth University and Neue Materialien Bayreuth, we had a chance to visit Zollhof - Tech Incubator in Nuremberg as our secon... Continue

Glyphosate is not only one of the most widely-used herbicides in the world, but also one of the most controversial chemical compounds, as it is suspected of being carcinogenic. In a study published in the journal Nature Sustainability, a team of researchers from FAU have demonstrated how glyphosate ... Continue

In the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was again listed as one of the top 200 universities for 2020. This year, almost 1,800 institutes of higher education worldwide were assessed – compared to 1,400 the year before – w... Continue