International

Two researchers from the Faculty of Engineering have once again made it onto the list of the Highly Cited Researchers: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec, Chair of Materials Science (Materials in Electronics and Energy Technology) Prof. Dr. Robert Schober, Chair of Digital Communications In to...

Participating in the first European Master's degree programme in high performance computing A European consortium including FAU aims to develop a pan-European pilot Master’s degree programme for high performance computing (HPC). As of winter semester 2022/23, the partners hope to offer courses that...

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Prof. José-Daniel Muñoz, Director of the Simulation of Physical Systems Group at the National University of Colombia (UNAL), Bogota. His research interest focuses on the numerical modeling and analysis of granular media, building materials, acousti...

Prof. Zbynek Koldovsky from the University of Liberec (Czech Republic) will deepen his research cooperation in the field of blind signal separation and signal extraction as a visiting professor of FAU at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing from Nov. 2-12, 2021. Prof. Koldovs...

FAU once more shows what it can do in the second and third subject groups in the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking. The second ranking group focuses on engineering and computer science, and the third on subjects including social sciences. In computer science, FAU improved its position, moving ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at FAUg, has been elected Vice-president of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini represents the German Materials Society (DGM) in the Executive Committee of FEMS since 2016. He will start his 2-year...

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Dr. Massimiliano Ditroilo from the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science at the University College Dublin. Mr. Ditroilo’s research interests include neuromuscular function in sports performance, injury risk a...

The Faculty of Engineering is pleased to welcome Dr. Maria Pozzi from SIRSLab, University of Siena. She is visiting Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle, Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics from 16 September to 6 October 2021. Ms. Pozzi's research interests include human-robot interaction, rehabilita...

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 ...

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...