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In this year’s QS subject ranking, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) achieved a place in a total of 20 subjects. The position of FAU's Faculty of Engineering is particularly pleasing, having achieved outstanding results in four of its subject areas. Among the top 200 worldwi...

Schmidt Max explores the concept of silence in his latest segment on Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). As part of his journey, he visits FAU’s low-reflection room, where Prof. Dr. Tobias Reichenbach and his team at AIBE conduct research on hearing aids. Watch the segment from minute 6:20 (in German) to lea...

Intercultural communication is our daily experience during our studies and in research. We are therefore pleased to invite you to an exciting event that will sharpen your view of intercultural communication from different perspectives and give inspiration to our international research, learning and ...

At FAU, students can gain ECTS credits for brewing beer: Various types of craft beer ranging from pale ale to Weizenbock are produced at the “Röthelheimbräu” brewery at the Chair of Bioprocess Engineering. Brewing beer also allows students to gain an insight into the wide range of areas of applicati...

Prof. Dr. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of FAU Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Riga Technical University (RTU). The award ceremony took place on January 20, 2025 during the ceremonial opening of the new building of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence (B...

Children who cannot move their hands, for example after suffering a stroke at a young age: Scientists from the Neuromuscular Physiology and Neural Interfacing Laboratory (N-squared Lab) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) hope that impairments such as these will soon belong to...

Deepfakes are spreading rapidly and are increasingly difficult to detect. An IT forensics group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is currently working on a tool in conjunction with secunet Security Networks AG that detects images generated by AI automatically and reliably. T...

Soft materials like rubber or silicone tear easily under tensile stress. In a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are looking for ways to make such materials more stable. In a current study, they have shown that it...

Noise, i.e., superimposing random fluctuations over signals, generally makes it more difficult to interpret information. Anyone who has tried to follow the news while listening to a radio program with a fuzzy signal knows that from their own experience. However, neural networks actually seem to bene...

FAU is listed among the 100 most prestigious universities in the world in four subjects. In Germany, FAU even managed to jump into the top 10 in seventeen subjects. A total of more than 5000 universities all over the world were evaluated in the ranking. In Telecommunication Engineering, FAU came ...