General

Chemical engineers, chemists and physicists of the Excellence Cluster Engineering of Advanced Materials at FAU develop a fundamentally new material concept for use in catalysis: Catalysts are agents that initiate chemical reactions, speed them up or significantly increase the yield of the desired p...

FAU and Siemens Healthineers promote innovation from researchers all over the world: A blood circulation and nerve stimulator for diabetic patients, a low-cost hand prosthesis and a finger cap which cools precisely defined areas of skin are just some of the innovative projects presented by internat...

Computers require an increasing amount of processing power to ensure that demanding programs run smoothly. Current technology will not able to keep up for long, and a new concept is needed in the long term: Together with their partners in the SFB/Transregio 89 collaborative project “Invasive Comput...

The cooperation program with National University of Mar del Plata in Argentina enters its third year. The program is supported by I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien) and enables Master students of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology (WW Department) to spend one year in Arge...

It all began with a bet at a conference in Italy in 2013. FAU researcher Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg’s lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Scien...

Interview with PhD Student Muchao Qu Muchao Qu came to Germany in 2010 to study the language of German in Stuttgart for one year. Afterwards, he commenced a Master´s degree in Chemistry at the Technische Universität Chemnitz (Technical University of Chemnitz) which he finished in 2014. Since 2015, ...

Pictures of the Graduation Ceremony from 7th July 2017 are online and can be found at https://www.apps.tf.fau.de/bildergalerien/.