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In episode 14 of A Cup With the President, the FAU President Joachim Hornegger is meeting with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Morschheuser who holds the professorship for Information Systems, especially Gamification at FAU.

In this episode of A Cup with the President, Prof. Dr. Hornegger visits Prof. Dr. Andreas Kist, who is an expert on AI for communication disorders.

FAU alumna Veronika Kamer works as a project manager at the Fürth agency da kapo and studied Book Studies and German at our FAU. Her tip to students: make contacts and keep your eyes open - while you're studying.

Four researchers from FAU are included in the Highly Cited Researchers List. The List of Highly Cited Researchers 2024 aimed at pinpointing people across the globe who have had a significant and far-reaching impact on their specific research areas.

You can register now for your examinations on campo.fau.de. Registration is open until December 8 (11:59 pm).

Noise generally makes it more difficult to interpret information. Anyone who has tried to follow the news while listening to a radio program with a fuzzy signal knows that from their own experience. However, neural networks actually seem to benefit from a slight amount of noise being mixed into the data to be processed.

The Shanghai subject ranking 2024 has been published, and FAU is listed among the 100 most prestigious universities in the world in four subjects. In Germany, FAU even managed to jump into the top 10 in seventeen subjects.

Excellent support for start-ups at Bavarian universities is rewarded: the “MöglichMacher” - Bayerischer Hochschulpreis Entrepreneurship” (Bavarian university award for entrepreneurship) has been awarded for the second time and FAU’s Digital Tech Fellows Program has scooped up one of the awards.

Advance ticket sales for the 69th Erlanger Schlossgartenfest begin on Monday, November 11, 2024. Anyone looking for a Christmas present can order tickets until December 18, 2024. Members of the FAU alumni network benefit from the alumni discount and, like FAU members, receive the cards for the price of 99.50 euros instead of 150 euros.

Since 2020, very many people across the globe have been vaccinated against Covid-19, but the exact structure of this vaccine has remained largely unknown until now. Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh from the Chair of Crystallography at FAU and his team are now taking a closer look. The results of their complex analyses differ at times considerably from previous expectations. Active substances and pharmaceutical excipients incorporated in these mRNA vaccines appear not to be solid, as was previously suspected, but instead consist of numerous liquid nano droplets.