Year: 2022

What do coffee, red wine and ink have in common? The stubborn stains they leave behind. Anyone who has ever knocked over a cup of coffee will know that coffee dries in an unusual pattern, the stain is lighter at the center but it gets darker around the perimeter, an effect known as the coffee ring. ...

2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging future. Researchers at FAU and Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm are currently conducting rese...

The Faculty of Engineering welcomes Prof. Anthony Ephremides as a visiting professor. Anthony Ephremides holds the Cynthia Kim Eminent Professorship Chair of Information Technology at the University of Maryland. He is also co-founder of the NASA Center for Commercial Development of Space on Hybrid a...

Crystals are not necessarily hard and resistant but also occur in soft matter when weakly bound molecules arrange in a regular order. Such organic crystals are widespread in pharmaceuticals products, but also occur as tiny nanocrystals in the active layer of organic solar cells. Here, the organic na...

There are many different types of arthritis, and diagnosing the exact type of inflammatory disease that is affecting a patient’s joints is not always easy. In an interdisciplinary research project conducted at the Faculty of Engineering and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, computer scientists and phys...

How can we build efficient electric cars? What makes an e-bike company successful? How can we decarbonize mobility? The answers to these questions and many more will be provided during our six-part lecture series called “Innovation in Mobility”. The invited speakers are successful entrepreneurs from...

Faculty of Engineering honours Dr. Dorin Comaniciu As a sign of special recognition of his outstanding research achievements as well as significant state-of-the-art contributions, the Faculty of Engineering has awarded Dr. Dorin Comaniciu of Siemens Healthineers with an honorary doctorate degree. T...

Materials science and engineering among the best in the world

Professor Dr. Arkady Zgonnikov is Assistant Professor at the Department of Cognitive Robotics and Co-director of the HERALD Delft AI Lab, Faculty 3mE, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). He is currently visiting Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle, Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics (...