Alumni

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

MAP graduate Farzaneh Ahmadloo has the mission to offer a solution fighting the global problem of water scarcity with a sustainable and affordable solution for everyone at any purpose. Grino, a university spin-off company of FAU provides a battery-free solar-based desalination system. Continue

Mr. Qaisar Nawaz (MAP graduate, 2016), was awarded the best poster prize at the joint meeting of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) and the French Union for Science and Glass Technology (USTV), held in Nuremberg on 13-15 May 2019. Mr. Nawaz is currently a doctoral student at the Institute ... Continue

On the 29th of April 2019 the traditional international dinner of the elite master’s programme Advanced Materials and Processes took place. All MAP students and lecturers were invited to celebrate this very special event. Also, students interested in choosing MAP as future master’s programme were we... 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

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

Graduates from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have excellent opportunities when starting out into the world of work, both in Germany and abroad. This has been confirmed by the latest QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2019, published by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a leading provider o... Continue

Ms Marcela Arango Ospina, who graduated from the FAU Elite Master program Advanced Materials and Processes (MAP), has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2018  (1st prize) for her Master thesis: "Design and development of Ag-doped mesoporous bioactive glass based scaffolds derive... Continue

Thomas Distler, doctoral student at the Institute of Biomaterials, under supervision of Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, won „Best Poster Award“ at the 1st Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) EU Workshop on „3D Printing in Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering“, held in... Continue