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Prize for mathematics: FAU awards Staudt Prize

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) regularly awards one of the most prestigious German awards in the field of mathematics: The Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize. This year, it is being awarded to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lück, a mathematician at the University of Bonn, in recogni...

Climate change: It is no longer possible to save the glaciers at the size they are today

Dr. Christian Sommer from the Institute of Geography at FAU was involved in the first systematic recording of measurement data tracking the dramatic retreat of glaciers Over the last 25 years approximately 39 percent of glacier ice has disappeared: the results of the Glambie study from the Europ...

Welcome events for first-semester students, preparatory courses and orientation weeks at the start of the semester

Erstsemesterbegrüßungen und Orientierungswochen im Wintersemester 2023/24

Ecosystem engineers under pressure

About rhodoliths and the impact climate has on these architects of the natural world Rising water temperatures caused by climate change also put pressure on important ecosystem engineers. While everyone is aware of coral and the huge reefs it forms, other architects of the natural world include cer...

Africa’s ice is disappearing

The few glaciers in Africa have long since become an important indicator of how rapidly and severely climate change is changing our planet. The ice on the high summits of the continent is rapidly disappearing, Africa may lose its white peaks by the middle of our century. The Master’s student Anne Hi...

Fighting hunger with cassava

Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is providing approximately 25.8 million euros (28 million US dollars) in funding for an international research project led by FAU: The non-profit organization will support the cassava source-sink (CASS) project in the next five years t...

Digital twin accelerates solar research

Artificial intelligence is expected to accelerate the search for the perfect material for solar panels by a factor of ten. An interdisciplinary team from FAU is working on this. Researchers from materials science, engineering, chemistry, and computer science aim to implement a digital twin that bett...

ERC Consolidator Grant for Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel

Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel has received an ERC Consolidator Grant. Karl Mandel has been Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at FAU since 2020, and Head of the Particle Technology Group at the Fraunhofer Institute of Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg since 2014. He completed his doctoral degree in 2013 a...