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Every five years, our international Master’s programme Advanced Materials and Processes is evaluated by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB). Only after a positive assessment by both the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts and an independent group of experts, a study program can continue t... Continue

A love of steel Is there anything new we can learn about steel? Peter Felfer, junior professor at the Chair of General Materials Science is often asked this question whenever he talks about steel, an area of research which he is particularly enthusiastic about. ‘Steel is of such importance that e... Continue

Prof. Dr. Erik Bitzek, Chair of General Materials Properties of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), has received a coveted ERC consolidator Grant worth two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) – to explore on a fundamental level why things break apart. Continue