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Federal President Steinmeier visited Erlangen as part of the series of events entitled “Workshop for change”. In the innovation hub Medical Valley Center Erlangen, five teams from the healthcare sector presented their projects, including “GraspAgain”, a start-up initiated by a research team at FAU.

Till Martini has been fascinated by rowing since he was just 13 years old, and has now made it into the German men’s eight team as the coxswain. At the World University Games in Chengdu, China, he won silver with his team.

Excellence in academia relies on team work said FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger during the festivities celebrating the University’s 280th anniversary. FAU celebrated the sense of community among all its members as one of the keys to its success on November 4 in the Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg.

Optical cavities allow the properties of quantum materials such as their electrical conductivity to be manipulated in a targeted manner. Physicists at FAU are investigating this enormous potential for electronics, energy storage and quantum computing. Their work has now received just under two million euros in funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the coming four years.

In view of the growing importance of information technology for society, cybercrime is becoming more and more of a threat and opens up entirely new possibilities for committing crimes in the digital space. At the same time, however, it also opens up new possibilities for law enforcement. Bearing this in mind, FAU and the Bavarian Office of Criminal Investigation have signed a cooperation agreement in the area of IT forensics/digital forensics.

In the rare disease erythromelalgia, disorders in the smallest nerves and vessels in the skin lead to a painful, burning sensation. The temperature of the skin is increased and those affected by the disease suffer from swelling and redness in their feet, and more rarely also in their hands, arms, legs, ears and face. Until now there has been no effective treatment. The EASE study hopes to change that.

The scientist, researcher and entrepreneur from Erlangen Karlheinz Brandenburg has received an award from the prestigious Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). The awards gala was held on October 19, 2023 in Hollywood.

Managing editor - sounds exciting? Leonie Maderstein is managing editor at the TV show "ARD Buffet" and studied  Theater and Media Studies at FAU. In the FAU Alumni managements new career format FAU Alumni #JobInsights, she gives tips on starting a career and also talks about a topic that probably most people know: Self-doubt.

FAU and the Siemens RIE Erlangen-Nuremberg had the honour to host a delegation of the “Tsinghua Siemens Digital Transformation Leadership program” on Wednesday, 25th of October. With the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem program, Siemens supports long-term partnerships with renowned universities to collaborate on important research topics – with two of the universities being FAU and Tsinghua University.

For the second year running, FAU is included in the THE subject ranking for all eleven subjects that were investigated. Worldwide, it made it into the top 200 for eight subject groups, and within Germany even into the top 20 with all subjects.