Research

Fast-moving babies Babies are capable of moving extremely quickly. This is crucial to the development of the human nervous system. An international team of researchers involving FAU has now developed a method which can be used to quantitatively assess these movements at the level of the individual ...

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...

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...

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 is a partner of the ‘Global Market Leaders Innovation Day’ initiative run by the German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche, which is to be held in Erlangen on 8 September 2020. Renowned researchers and young talents from FAU will present their research and ideas on the main focal topic ‘energy ...