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She is a member of the Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance: FAU alumna Katja Hessel. In addition to her job as a politician, Katja Hessel also works as a lawyer in her own law firm. In the video interview, she tells anecdotes from her first day in the Bundestag and reveals more about her time studying at FAU.

The Executive Board at FAU has a new member: Humboldt professor Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard has been appointed Vice President Education and will be responsible for the area of education over the next three years. In her new role, she hopes to lay greater emphasis on the concept of “educational integrity”.

FAU’s tech incubator gains 4th place in Germany in a competition run by the Financial Times and Statista. In Europe, ZOLLHOF is among the top 50.

FAU is one of more than 350 academic institutions standing up for diversity by taking part in the #Zusammenland initiative. The University is taking a stance against right-wing extremism and standing up for freedom, democracy, diversity and a welcoming culture.

How does our brain switch between different behaviors? A current study has now provided the first answers to this key question in neuroscience. Using mice, the researchers investigated electrical activity in a certain area within the brain.

The Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) elected Prof. Dr. Klaus Überla as its new chair during its inaugural meeting. The director of the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Uniklinikum Erlangen and Chair of Clinical and Molecular Virology at FAU has been a member of the committee since 2017.

There are lots of cool products with the University logo available in the FAU shop. New: Our practical roll top backpack.

An international team of researchers has succeeded in “filming” the activation of an important receptor. The results, that have now been published in the journal Nature, may lead in the medium term to the development of more effective medicines.

Academic freedom today is not available for 3.6 billion people, or 45.5 percent of the world's population. After a global peak in academic freedom in 2006, the situation today is comparable to circumstances fifty years ago in 1973. This is one of the results of the 2024 Update of the Academic Freedom Index (AFI), which researchers at the FAU have presented.

Using solar energy to bake bread? It works! During an advanced seminar in technical development aid at the Chair of Power Electronics, students had the possibility to try out the concept of the solar bakery themselves. The result: roughly 100 baguettes.