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The recently published Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) carries a dire warning of the potentially irreversible consequences of following the current trend of global warming. Extreme events, such as the huge wildfires ...

The world’s first scientific database for photovoltaic technology recently went online. The idea for the database came from researchers at FAU and its aim is to accelerate advances in photovoltaic research. If we are ever to move away completely from nuclear energy and coal, we must secure our ener...

Materials scientist Prof. Dr. Ken-ichi Kakimoto from NITech in Japan is the new FAU Ambassador and also the vice president of the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) in Japan. He has maintained close ties to FAU for more than 10 years now. In 2020, he was awarded the title of FAU Ambassador in r...

Telecommunication Engineering once more in first place in Germany. In the latest Shanghai ranking, FAU is once more among the world’s best 100 universities in five subjects, including four times in Engineering: Energy Science and Engineering (46th place), Telecommunication Engineering (58), Metallu...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at FAU. The aim of CRC 1483 is to create sensor technology and gather movement data for the human body. Every movement made by a living organism is the result of countless processes inside the body and com...

The Cluster of Excellence EAM is launching a new round of calls for the EAM Starting Grants. This way EAM aims at investing in the most talented researchers in the New Materials and Processes environment at FAU. The EAM Starting Grant is a measure to bring new ideas and new people into the cluster’s...

Magnets could be used to remove plastic particles Environmental pollution caused by microplastics and nanoplastics is a ubiquitous problem which cannot be tackled using currently available cleaning concepts. Researchers at FAU have now demonstrated how magnets could be used to remove plastic partic...

Rotating microrobots behave like water, oil and soap You need soap to remove dirt from your skin. The surfactant molecules it contains squeeze their way into the surface area between the dirt and the skin and help to dissolve the dirt in water. Researchers at FAU and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düss...

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new research group in photonics: How cracks are formed Lasers are a widely used tool in manufacturing technology that enables contactless and highly-automated joining of workpieces. One of the greatest difficulties in this process is that solidific...