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The Departments of the Faculty of Sciences welcome the new students who will begin their studies in winter semester 2016/17 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. There are several introductory courses for the international study programmes and welcoming events that those students should attend: ...

An international team of researchers including involvement from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has developed a new opioid pain reliever with a characteristic of special significance: the new analgesic appears to have virtually no serious side effects. The active ingredient has bee...

FAU has performed excellently in the recently published Shanghai subject ranking: the natural sciences appear in the top 100 in the world for the first time at number 92, while medicine has gone up by 80 places compared to last year and now ranks at number 111. In the Shanghai subject ranking (of...

FAU researchers make key break-through. Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists at FAU have now succeeded in producing defect-free graphene directly from graphite fo...

Physicists at FAU and the Vienna University of Technology have successfully created one-dimensional magnetic atom chains for the first time. Their break-through provides a model system for basic research in areas such as magnetic data storage, as well as in chemistry. Their results were recently pub...

Further proof that FAU’s reputation as an innovative research university is well deserved can be seen in the Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars Supplement. The University is ranked at number 76 in the world and number 19 in Western Europe in the Supplement, which rates universities based on the increase...

FAU researchers discover rules for how human cells return to their original shape after mechanical loading. Human cells show deformation under the influence of external forces. But how do they recover their original shape afterwards? This mechanism, which is important in medicine and biology, has b...

AMS metabolite responsible for garlic odour. Food chemists at FAU have found that garlic aroma is evident in the breast milk of women who have consumed garlic. This is caused by allyl methyl sulfide (AMS) – a metabolite which is first formed in a strong concentration during breastfeeding. Whether t...

Viral infections may be involved in the pathogenesis of the lupus autoimmune disease. This was recently discovered by FAU researchers. Their research shows that messenger substances of the immune system trigger the disease when their production is not lowered after recovery from viral infection. The...

An engine made of a single atom Researchers at FAU, in collaboration with colleagues at the universities of Mainz and Kassel, have constructed the world’s smallest engine. The tiny machine consists of just a single atom and is able to convert heat into kinetic energy effectively. The results of the...