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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... Continue

A team of researchers at FAU led by Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) is producing bioactive glass that is being tested for suitability in the treatment of giant-cell tumours of the bone at Heidelberg University Hospital as part of a cooperation project. The can... Continue

The Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the German federal states has just announced that FAU will receive funds to establish a National Center for High Performance Computing (NHR@FAU) with focus on atomistic simulations. Already next year almost 9 million € will be invested in a new parallel computer... Continue

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved three new Collaborative Research Centres/Transregios (CRC/TRR) at FAU. The aim of CRC/TRR 305 is to understand the molecular mechanisms behind how metastases form and to develop new treatments for cancer metastases on this basis. In CRC/TRR 306, rese... Continue

MAP lecturer and Focal Subject Head Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been appointed Editor for the Section "Biomaterials for life science and healthcare" in the new Open Access European Journal of Materials. The journal was launched recently by Taylor&Francis and is ... Continue

In the (online) summer semester 2020, the FSI (Fachschaftsinitiative) of the FAU study programmes CBI, CEN, LSE and EnTe launched the “Audience Award for Excellent Teaching”. Students of the CBI department, which co-hosts the MAP programme, have the opportunity to nominate lecturers who have disting... Continue

This year, six FAU researchers whom of two are MAP lecturers are among the most highly cited researchers in their field. The Highly Cited Researchers List names almost 6200 of the most influential researchers across the globe in 21 different disciplines. Their achievements are proven on the basis... Continue

The special issue of Advanced Engineering Materials (vol. 22, Sept. 2020) containing a collection of papers covering research activities at the MAP host Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen‐Nuremberg (FAU) has been just published. The special issue was co-edi... Continue

Sustainable energy is hard to imagine without photovoltaic technology. Photovoltaic cells have a particular advantage as they can be mounted on almost all surfaces, even inside window panes. Even older buildings can be retrofitted in many scenarios. The importance of photovoltaic technology will con... Continue

In the international Times Higher Education World University Rankings, FAU was again listed among the top 200 universities worldwide for 2021. FAU ranked 198 of over 1500 universities internationally. The University performed well in all areas of the ranking, but did particularly well in the area of... Continue