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On 25 April 2022, we welcomed all of our students back to campus after a 2-year corona break. Of course, they had been on campus before, but due to the regulations we could not meet them all at the same time. As the MAP team, we met our second-semester students in person for the very first time. We ...

A dream I had before coming to Germany to join MAP was to work in the field of chemical process simulation and optimization. This is a field I was very much in love with. Before joining MAP, as always when embarking on a new life journey, I had my doubts about whether the programme is the best choic...

Materials science and engineering at FAU is once more ranked among the top 100 in the world in 2022 according to the latest QS World University Subject Ranking published by the education information service provider Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). Overall FAU is rated as one of the top 250 universities w...

Two Equal Opportunity Fellowships for female applicants available. Application deadline: 15 June 2022 For further details visit our section on scholarships for prospective students.

Bionic innovation towards environmental protection – The successful end of the joined project BayBionik with the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection was celebrated at a final event at the Bionicum in the Tiergarten Nürnberg. The group of MAP chair Prof. Nicolas Vogel p...

An open house for people in need: the East wing of the Himbeerpalast in Erlangen is to offer a temporary home for Ukrainian refugees. This has been made possible thanks to the close and unbureaucratic collaboration between FAU, Erlangen city council, the State Construction Office Erlangen-Nuremberg ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, MAP Focal Subject Head and Head, Institute of Biomaterials at FAU, will receive an honorary doctorate from Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. Prof. Boccaccini is conferred the title of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in recognition of his successful research in biomateri...

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 ...

According to a new report that analyses citations of scientific publications, more than 200 researchers from FAU are among the top two percent of the most cited scientists worldwide. Citations are an important criterion to measure the impact of scientific research and describe how often an initial r...