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The Budget Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament has approved the project for the construction of the high-performance computing center at FAU. Bavaria is investing more than 270 million euros in the IT infrastructure.

Every semester, FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits professors who are new to FAU. In Episode 22, the President visits Prof. Dr. Claudia Lillge. She is the Chair of English Studies: Culture and Literature at FAU.

FAU is one of the universities with the best reputation worldwide. In the recently published THE World Reputation Ranking, FAU was listed among the most renowned universities worldwide for the first time.

The KM3NeT neutrino telescope off the coast of Sicily recently registered a neutrino with an estimated energy of around 220 million billion electron volts - a value that has not yet been recorded for neutrinos.

Hops are not only an essential raw material for brewing beer, but have also been valued as a medicinal plant since ancient times. This is the starting point for FAU researchers Luisa Kober and Marco Dürsch, who are investigating the positive effects of hops.

Photovoltaic systems play an important role in sustainable energy generation. Chemists Phillip Greißel and Dominik Thiel from FAU are researching how this process can be optimized. Their findings could contribute to the development of a new generation of solar cells.

Researchers led by Prof Dr Jürgen Karl from FAU are investigating measures to make wastewater treatment plants climate-neutral. The project is being funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with around 500,000 euros.

The FAU Magazine has won the German Design Award 2025. The FAU magazine is the winner in the category Excellent Communications Design, Editorial. The success was celebrated in style during today’s awards ceremony in Frankfurt. In 2023, FAU received the prestigious Red Dot Award and German Brand Awa...

Using window films to sustainably protect buildings from heat - this is what FAU Alumna Katja Wadlinger and her team are working on in their start-up AMPERIAL. In the latest edition of our FAU Alumni #MyStory video series, Katja Wadlinger gives exclusive insights into the lab and explains how FAU helped her to found her company.

Bouldering promotes mental health - as FAU Professor Dr Katharina Luttenberger has shown in numerous studies with adults. The Bavarian Ministry of Health is funding an extension of the study to 13 to 18-year-olds with 811,000 euros.