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It is the third time that representatives from academia, politics and industry have met in Erlangen for Innovation Day, which is well on the way to becoming an established tradition, as the editor in chief of WirtschaftsWoche Beat Balzi commented in his welcoming speech. FAU President Prof. Dr. Joac...

FAU would like to recognise outstanding commitment and excellent quality in teaching thus emphasising the importance of teaching alongside research. It therefore set up an annual University-wide teaching award in 2016 that recognises outstanding achievements in teaching. With this award, successful ...

The PhD students Samuele Spreafico and Andreas Ziegler belonging to Project L attended this years international summer school which is organized every two years within the research of Computational Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD) at Technical University of Denmark. The major focus of this su...

The UN formally approved a resolution declaring the year 2022 as the International Year of Glass to celebrate the heritage and importance of this material in our lives. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production...

This year the IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics was held in Tours, France from June 27-July 1, 2022. This international conference aims to bring together leaders from academia, national laboratories and industrial research and development sectors. The conference covered ...

The International Research Training Group (IGK 2495) “Energy Conversion Systems: From Materials to Devices” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers 12 doctoral researcher positions for various projects related to electro-mechanical and electro-optical energy harvesting syste...

On May 21st, 2022 from 6pm till midnight, the Long Night of Sciences was held in the region of Nuremberg, Fürth and Erlangen after pausing during the tough period of the pandemic. At the Long Night, large scientific institutions like the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg hold lect...

Prof. Dr. Paul Steinmann, IRTG PI in Project B, has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Steinmann intends to use the funding worth 2.5 million euros to investigate the fracture mechanics of soft materials such as rubber or tissue more intensively during...

As part of the collaboration between FAU and Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, the IRTG offers four new interdisciplinary graduate level lectures on device development and advanced characterization methods in the summer semester 2022. Those week-long lectures (5 ECTS) will be given by a joint F...