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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

Great news with regards to research funding: The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) has announced that it will extend two Collaborative Research Centers (SFBs) involving the Materials Science Department for another funding period. In the SFB TRR “From Atom to Tur... Continue

Excellent news for FAU: The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Centre for the University to start in January 2020. The CRC will be coordinated by FAU and its researchers are set to receive around 11 million euros in funding for nanoparticle design. The researc... Continue

The „10 Year Anniversary“ International Symposium to celebrate the 10 years of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was held on November 29th 2019 at Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). More than 120 participants attended the... Continue

On 25 November, 2019, at the University of Bayreuth, the official go-ahead was given for the "LimnoPlast” EU research and training project on the distribution of microplastics in European rivers and lakes. This “Innovative Training Network (ITN)”, which is funded for four years to the tune of almost... Continue