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What role do female IS returnees play within the “Islamic State” system, why are they rarely referred to as war criminals in public discourse and which aspects should be considered more closely in future? A conversation with Prof. Dr. Christoph Safferling and Jana Trapp, a legal trainee at the Kammergericht (court of appeal) in Berlin and a doctoral candidate at FAU.

Huntington’s disease is caused by repeated toxic changes in the protein huntingtin. An interdisciplinary team at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and FAU has now discovered a treatment that is currently undergoing clinical trials. With this groundbreaking study, the team was able to demonstrate for the first time how nerve cells of Huntington patients can be cured.

The CHE Master’s ranking 2022 indicates that many Master’s students are very happy with their choice of FAU. The survey focused on engineering subjects and psychology. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Psychology did particularly well among Master’s students.

In the “Orangerie digital” project, the Institute of Art History at FAU has digitally recorded the Erlangen art gallery (1906-1934) and reconstructed the exhibition in a 360° tour, with the help of students from the Institute. The project gave the students valuable insights into research and their f...

Catalysts are of utmost relevance for the production of chemicals and energy storage with hydrogen. Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that the formation of bubbles in ...

The symposium "Diversity in physics for the diversity of physics -Erlangen", DIPHER 22 for short, took place for the first time. The organisers had set themselves the goal of reflecting the professional diversity of physics at FAU through lectures on gender and diversity in the natural sciences, especially physics.

Acceptor layers made of oligomers can increase the performance of organic solar cells and ensure a long operating life at the same time. This is the result of laboratory experiments conducted by materials scientists at FAU. Organic solar cells are less complex to manufacture than silicon modules and are considerably more versatile as they can be flexible and transparent.

Trailblazers, pioneers, and clever thinkers who drive the world forward and shape the future with their ideas and inventions. There is no shortage of such people at FAU, whether students, young researchers, professors or alumni. The celebration for FAU’s 279th anniversary on November 4 was an opportunity to shine a spotlight on people like this and their groundbreaking ideas.

Female putty-nosed monkeys deliberately use alarm calls to recruit males to defend the group. This is the conclusion reached by Claudia Stephan, an evolutionary biologist at FAU, together with colleagues from the Wildlife Conservation Society after conducting observations in the Republic of the Congo.

The new research building of the Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) is now complete. The official inaugural ceremony was attended by the Bavarian science minister Markus Blume and the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann.