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Alice Bellettini, second semester MAP student, reports on the MAP excursion to Zollhof - Tech Incubator, which is a FAU linked institute on startups, on 4 February 2019: "From the very beginning of the trip we were welcomed with enthusiasm and a desire to make us familiarise with the environment.... Continue

MAP alumnus, Mani Diba, has received the Rubicon fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to perform postdoctroral research in the group of Prof. Antonios Mikos at Rice University (USA). Mani graduated from MAP in 2012, after studying the focal subjects of biomat... Continue

Optical fibers, a widely employed tool for the transmission of light, are commonly made of rigid materials such as glass or thermoplastics. The mechanical properties of these materials prohibit the use of optical fibers in scenarios where large deformations are expected, such as wearable functional ... Continue

Complexity in nature, whether in chlorophyll or in living organisms, often results from self-assembly and is considered particularly robust. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practical relevance, and are found in atomic nuclei, nano particles or viruses. An interdisciplin... Continue

Ziyu Liao performed her miniproject in WS 17/18 (November 2017 – March 2018) at the Section of Experimental Oncology and Nanomedicine (SEON), Department of Otorhinolaryngology, at the Universtätsklinikum Erlangen. SEON works on the development of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) f... Continue

Not one, but two MAP lecturers were awarded the Teaching Award 2018 of the Faculty of Engineering: Prof. Carolin Körner (Chair of Materials Science and Engineering for Metals) and Dr.-Ing. Joachim Kaschta (Institute of Polymer Materials). Congratulations to both of them! We are glad that these lectu... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials), Prof. Christoph Brabec (Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology) and Prof. Patrik Schmuki (Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion), members of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, have been listed in the pres... Continue

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, Department WW) has been elected Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT), based in the United Kingdom. Fellowship recognition is given to individual achievement and is awarded for recognized contributions to the science and ... Continue

Thomas Distler, who graduated from the FAU Elite Master program Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP), received this years' prize for the Best Masters Thesis in Biomaterials, which is awarded annually by the German Society for Biomaterials (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomaterialien e.V., DGBM). The ... Continue

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