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Dr. Thomas Dauser from Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory and Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) at FAU has received this year's Innovation Award from the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) together with Javier Garcia (NASA Goddard Space Flight...

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...

For topics related to water Germany is represented via the Foreign Office to the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO and the Hydrology and Water Resources Programme (HWRP) of the World Metereological Organisation (WMO). Prof. Johannes Barth PhD (Chair of Applied and Environmental...

"3D Printing and Electrochemistry", "Nano Drug Delivery" and "Supraparticles" are three of the research areas of professors at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy who have been newly appointed in the last three years. On April 14, 2023, the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy cordially invites...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named a lecture hall after her. Here in Germany, hardly anyone knows her name. And yet she could be a real inspiration for young women in science: Dixie Lee Bryant, the daughter of a businessman from Kentucky, USA, studied at MIT before becoming th...

As of January 1, 2023, Siow Woon Ng is Junior Professor for Physical Chemistry of Interfaces at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy. The tenure track professorship is affiliated to the Chair of Physical Chemistry II. Prof. Ng studied physics and solid state physics at Universiti Sains Malays...

Start of new ARIADNE programme rounds: Female students and young scientists from the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering can now apply for admission to a new round of the career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat. The two qualification-specific programme lines will start in parallel i...

The Karl Georg Christian von Staudt Prize is the highest endowed German prize for mathematics, with up to 25,000 euros, and is awarded by Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Otto and Edith Haupt Foundation. On Friday, 22 April 2022, FAU will award the prize to Prof. Dr...

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has appointed two members of the Faculty of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, and Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua, Chair of Dynamics, Control and Numerics, as Henriette Herz Scouts. In this funding program, scouts can attract up ...

Until 10 October 2021, female students of Master’s and State Examination programmes, who are interested in further academic qualification can apply for admission to the career mentoring programme ARIADNETechNat: ARIADNETechNat master 2022 with programme runtime January – October 2022 ARIADNE...