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NITech has awarded Prof. Dr. Peter Greil an honorary doctorate on March 15, 2021. Professor Greil was a visiting professor at NITech from 2010 to 2015 and a consultant for the Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science from 2015. He has advanced the conclusion of the academic exchange agre...

New QS subject ranking published FAU has once again performed excellently in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2021: Materials Science and Chemistry remain among the top 150, and Materials Science has even made it into the top 100.

FAU doctoral candidate Franziska Schirrmacher nominated as AI newcomer Franziska Schirrmacher, doctoral candidate at FAU’s Chair of IT Security Infrastructures, develops methods of finding digital traces in image or video files that can subsequently be used to solve crime. In recognition of her res...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionise medicine and our healthcare systems. AI is able to recognise patterns in vast amounts of data that a human simply could not. FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger looks into the topic in more detail with his guest Prof. Dr. Andreas Maie...

Students studying computer science and medical engineering have set up technical support for schools in Erlangen. Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, Chair of Computer Science 15 at FAU, the team of volunteers provides support to teachers, parents and children, free of charge. They ...

Technical catalysts with new properties With ‘CLINT’ (Catalysis at Liquid Interfaces), FAU has received approval for another Collaborative Research Centre. The speaker is Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid, Chair of Chemical Reaction Engineering. The CRC is pursuing a completely new approach in chemical ...

We look back on the Day of the Faculty of Engineering

Fast-moving babies Babies are capable of moving extremely quickly. This is crucial to the development of the human nervous system. An international team of researchers involving FAU has now developed a method which can be used to quantitatively assess these movements at the level of the individual ...

As part of the collaboration between FAU and Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, the IRTG will offer three new interdisciplinary graduate level lectures consisting of two courses held by both a Japanese and a German Professor starting from November 2020. This FAU-NITech Lecture Series will pro...