Research

Historical photos of the night sky online

The right temperature matters – whether in technical processes, for the quality of food and medicines, or the lifetime of electronic components and batteries. For this purpose, temperature indicators record (un)desired temperature increases that can be read out later. Researchers in the group led by...

The Collaborative Research Center / Transregio 154 "Mathematical modeling, simulation and optimization using the example of gas networks" receives its third funding period from the DFG. The German Research Foundation will fund the Transregio for another four, i.e. twelve years in total. Gas network...

‘German Nobel Prize’ for Prof. Dr. Hommelhoff

When stars like our Sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team led by FAU has now been able to observe such an explosion of X-ray light for the very firs...

FAU scientist and H.E.S.S. team observe time-dependent particle acceleration outside our solar system for the first time

The Chair of Physical Chemistry I (Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi) and the Chair of Materials Science (Materials of Electronics and Energy Technology, Prof. Dr. Christoph Brabec) cordially invite all interested students and (junior) researchers to the Next Generation Solar Energy Conference, which will tak...

An open access FAU glacier portal shows the speed at which glaciers are flowing.

FAU astronomers investigate special star system before it explodes

A new DFG research group led by Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) is investigating ultra-high energy jets. Two astrophysicists from FAU are also involved. The research group will be funded with a total of 3.6 million euros over the next four years. Black holes can be found in the cent...