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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.

FAU and the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem (RIE) Erlangen-Nuremberg had the pleasure of hosting a distinguished delegation from Tsinghua X-lab. Through Siemens’ RIE program, Siemens fosters long-term research partnerships with esteemed academic institutions, including FAU and Tsinghua University.

The race to find natural hydrogen underground is gaining speed and GeoZentrum Nordbayern at FAU is one of the institutions at the forefront of this race. The research project “Natural hydrogen in northern Bavaria” has supplied initial measurements that could revolutionize the energy system of the future.

Oracles, prayers, dance – what do these topics have in common? That is what the researchers from the KFG “Alternative rationalities and esoteric practices from a global perspective” hope to answer. In this interview, the group's speaker Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner discusses the term esoteric, explains their objectives and challenges and shares his own personal highlights.