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Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier has been awarded the Curious-Mind-Forscherpreis 2020 in the category Life Science. The Curious-Mind-Forscherpreis, presented by manager magazin and Merck, honours young scientists under the age of 40 whose work, in addition to highest academic excellence, already shows that...

EU funds international consortium with 4 million euros Tendon injuries are increasing around the world. To support the development of new therapeutic and diagnostic methods for tendon injuries using nanomedicine, the EU Horizon 2020 Framework programme is funding the P4 FIT consortium with approxim...

Increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells

DFG funding a FAU research project analysing killer whale sounds

FAU team develops cost-efficient and high-resolution multi-spectral camera Intelligent cameras are the next milestone in image and video processing A team of researchers at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at FAU has developed an intelligent camera that achieves not only...

An interview with FAU materials scientist Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec Sustainable energy is hard to imagine without photovoltaic technology. Photovoltaic cells have a particular advantage as they can be mounted on almost all surfaces, even inside window panes. Even older buildings can be retrofitted...

Over the next five years, the European Research Council (ERC) will support the excellent research projects of PD Dr. Benoit Merle, Chair of Materials Science I (General Material Properties, WW1) as one of three FAU junior scientists with one of the ERC Starting Grants, which are endowed with at leas...

An interview with Prof. Dr. Jörg Franke on the Green Factory Bavaria project The Green Factory Bavaria project was launched seven years ago. Twelve research institutes and more than one hundred companies jointly pursued the ambitious goal of minimising resource consumption in production. Prof. Dr. ...

FAU engineers supplies technological basis for multimedia forensics When solving crimes, even renowned forensics experts sometimes reach their limits, for example when the quality of video material from near the scene of a crime is very poor. A research project hopes to remedy this situation: In co...

Research at FAU into new applications for bioactive glass Bioactive glass is actually an old friend as it was developed around 50 years ago. Due to its properties that promote bone growth, it has often since been used in regenerative medicine as a material to replace bone or in dentistry. In addi...