Year: 2021

Faculty of Engineering retains its traditionally strong position

Two researchers from the Faculty of Engineering have once again made it onto the list of the Highly Cited Researchers: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, Chair of Digital Communications In to...

Partner in the new ‘For5G’ cooperation project A practical 5G application for cherry farming is being developed as part of the ‘For5G’ project. The heart of the project, located in the region known as Franconian Switzerland, is the creation and analysis of a ‘digital twin’ for fruit trees. The find...

Participating in the first European Master's degree programme in high performance computing A European consortium including FAU aims to develop a pan-European pilot Master’s degree programme for high performance computing (HPC). As of winter semester 2022/23, the partners hope to offer courses that...

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Prof. José-Daniel Muñoz, Director of the Simulation of Physical Systems Group at the National University of Colombia (UNAL), Bogota. His research interest focuses on the numerical modeling and analysis of granular media, building materials, acousti...

Prof. Zbynek Koldovsky from the University of Liberec (Czech Republic) will deepen his research cooperation in the field of blind signal separation and signal extraction as a visiting professor of FAU at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing from Nov. 2-12, 2021. Prof. Koldovs...

FAU once more shows what it can do in the second and third subject groups in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking. The second ranking group focuses on engineering and computer science, and the third on subjects including social sciences. In computer science, FAU improved its position, moving ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at FAUg, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Society (DGM) in the Executive Committee of FEMS since 2016. He will start his 2-year...