Month: November 2022

CHE Master’s ranking

The CHE Master’s ranking 2022 indicates that many Master’s students are very happy with their choice of FAU. The survey focused on engineering subjects and psychology. In the field of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology did particularly well. For the ranking, 10,000 studen...

New Collaborative Research Center and Transfer projects approved

CRC 1540 "The mechanics of the brain" The DFG has approved the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring of Brain Mechanics". The CRC “Exploring Brain Mechanics” is researching the most complex system of organs that exists – the central nervous system. Despite the enormous advances tha...

Professor Bikramjit Basu

Humboldt Research Fellowship My research areas: My research interests in the domain of Biomaterials Science and Bioengineering includes a) Implants: dental restoration/craniomaxillofacial, musculoskeletal, urological reconstruction; b) Additive manufacturing of implantable biomaterials, c) Cell-...

Professor Zeev Zalevsky

Humboldt Research Fellowship My research areas: Super resolution and biomedical imaging/sensing. Speckle based photo acoustic sensing Home University / Research Institute: Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Host research group: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Schmidt, Inst...

How fine bubbles lead to more efficient catalysts

Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in ...

New Faculty Management

Since 01 October 2022 the Faculty of Engineering has a new Faculty Management Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Kai Willner Lehrstuhl für Technische Mechanik kai.willner@fau.de First Vice Dean (Research and Young Researchers) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Stamminge...

Researchers at FAU optimize performance and stability of multi-layer organic solar cells

Acceptor layers made of oligomers can increase the performance of organic solar cells and ensure a long operating life at the same time. This is the result of a series of complex laboratory experiments conducted by materials scientists at FAU. Organic solar cells are less complex to manufacture than...

Faculty of Engineering strong in THE subject rankings

FAU has once again performed well in THE subject rankings. This year, for the first time, all 11 of the subjects reviewed made it into the rankings. Engineering holds the best international ranking at 102nd place, while the subject is ranked 5th nationally. In addition to Engineering, Computer Sc...

Prof. Boccaccini elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in recognition for his outstanding contributions to science and technology. The Fellow diploma was presented to Prof. Boccaccini at the EurASc Ceremony 2022,...