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The Faculty of Engineering at FAU has received a distinguished professorship from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts: As part of the High-Tech Agenda Bavaria, Prof. Dr. Bastian Etzold, Chair of Power-to-X Technologies, has been awarded five million euros in funding. “Bastian Etzo...

“Anyone who might have dared to suggest controlling a single photon, let alone an electron, 20 years ago would have been considered to have lost touch with reality,” states quantum engineer Professor Roland Nagy. Today, researchers like him and his team at FAU are even able to use the effects of suc...

Visiting Professor from Johns Hopkins University Prof. Alejandro Martin-Gomez is an assistant research professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA). He focuses on Augmented R...

There’s nothing like personal exchange, especially in high complex fields like laser technology or photonics applications. After a COVID break of almost four years, eight doctoral candidates from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Princeton University again met for a week of...

A robot performing surgery on humans. What sounds like science fiction could provide support to physicians in the operating room in future. In the “ForNeRo – Seamless and Ergonomic Integration of Robotics into the Clinical Workflow” research network, researchers from FAU and five other research inst...

Headaches, high blood pressure or digestive problems can be signs of many different medical conditions. Often, treatment focuses on the affected organs or organ systems and is aimed at alleviating symptoms. This is something experts at FAU, including computer scientist Prof. Dr. David B. Blumenthal,...

Face capture and facial reenactment are some of his specialist fields and he has been working on them for several years: Prof. Dr. Matthias Niessner, now Head of the Visual Computing Lab at TU München, is originally from FAU, where he not only completed his degree, but also gained his doctoral degre...

Organic electronics can make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and, at the same time, help to cut the consumption of rare and valuable raw materials. To do so, it is not only necessary to further develop manufacturing processes, but also to devise technical solutions for recycling as early ...

Associate Professor Ivan Kempson is leading a division of Biophysics at the Future Industries Institute of University of South Australia, Adelaide. Working at the interface of bio-inorganic chemistry and surface science, he applies physical-chemistry concepts and characterization tools to areas of n...