Month: September 2023

Several insects use a trick to dive into water without getting wet: tiny structures on their surface trap a thin film of air that protects the animals.Together with an international team of researchers, Dr. Alexander B. Tesler from the Chair of Corrosion and Surface Technology and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang...

Björn Eskofier, Chair of Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab at FAU, has been honored as a “role model and inspiration for entrepreneurs” by the Unipreneurs initiative, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate ...

Young researchers receive millions of euros in EU funding Funding from the European Research Council (ERC) is highly competitive. Receiving this funding not only provides researchers new impetus because of the high funding amounts of up to 1.5 million euros over a period of five years, but also rec...

Dr. Irem Unalan, alumna (former FAU PhD student) and currently a post-doctoral researcher at FAU's Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), has won the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2023 of the German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM). Irem received her Dr.-Ing. degree in 2022 with a project that focused on t...

Vehicle on-board networks have played a central role ever since the introduction of electric cars. The cable clutter in each car represents the increase in electrification of vehicles which will one day enable autonomous driving with safety-critical functions. This will finally transform on-board ne...