International

New DFG Funding Atlas confirms top rankings FAU is among the universities in Germany that receive the highest amounts of third-party funding from research funding organisations and government ministries, especially in the field of engineering. FAU is ranked first in Bavaria in this respect. These a...

Scholarships of the Fonds Hochschule International for travel costs FAU offers scholarships of the Fonds Hochschule International for travel costs for qualified students for study and internships abroad. Deadline for stays abroad starting between June 1st and December 1st: June 30th 2018 Det...

A delegation from Chonquing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) in China visited the Faculty of Engineering at FAU on 17 May 2018. The visit was organised by the Faculty of Engineering at FAU. At the beginning of their visit, the delegation from Chonquing University visited the int...

A delegation from the Faculty of Health of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from Brisbane, Australia visited FAU on 15 – 16 March 2018. The visit was organised by Professor Dr. med. habil. Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Phys. Oliver Friedrich, Chair of Medical Biotechnology (MBT) at FAU. During the...

Physicists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf have demonstrated that demixing occurs in systems made up of macroscopic particles rotating in opposite directions and that particles turning in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise directi...

New EIT Health research project launched on telemedical analysis of gait and falls A groundbreaking project for Parkinson’s patients from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Health (EIT Health) titled ‘MoveIT’ has now been launched under the lead of the Molecular-Neurological Depart...

FAU physicist defines law of particle dynamics of granular gases in more detail For the very first time, scientists from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Leicester and the University of Vigo have proven that the kinetic energy from particles in granular gas...

An honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E.h.) from the Faculty of Engineering was awarded to Professor Fujimoto on Monday, 22 January 2018. Professor Fujimoto gained his Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, EECS, at MIT in 1979, 198...

At our university, we find a large range of courses in medical, theological, technical and scientific fields, among them some unique, interdisciplinary Master programmes. One of them is MAP – Advanced Materials and Processes. The MAP programme is international and English-taught. It combines the dis...