Together with researchers from Denmark and France, the team around FAU professor Dr. Benoît Ladoux have discovered a previously unknown winning strategy in mechanical cell competition. They've published their results in Nature Materials.
Tomohisa Toda, Professor of Neural Epigenetics at FAU, is investigating how the physical nature of cell nuclei affects gene regulation and brain function. Now, the scientist is being honored with the Joseph Altman Award in Developmental Neuroscience.
FAU food chemist receives award for excellent university teaching
The Ars Legendi Faculty Award for excellent university teaching in the category of Chemistry goes this year to Dr. Sabrina Gensberger-Reigl from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) The official award ceremony will...
Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, but are themselves very unstable. Researchers at FAU and the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN) Magdeburg now want to decode these dynamics.
FAU astrophysicist Dr. Jonas Glombitza uses AI as an analysis catalyst for data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. His analysis is only the second in astroparticle physics in which machine learning has been used.
In this year's QS subject ranking, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) was ranked in a total of 20 subjects. This means that FAU is represented in all five subject areas of the QS Quacquarelli Symonds ranking.
Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025.
Every semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors in their departments. In episode 23, he visits Prof. Dr. Stephan Rosshart. He holds the Chair of Microbiomics at FAU.
Quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not go together. The DFG is therefore funding physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wieland as part of the Heisenberg program to develop an approach that reconciles the two theories in a specific problem area.
Physicists are still asking themselves today: does quantum mechanics need hypercomplex numbers? FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have investigated the question.
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