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With the Young Researcher Award (YRA) in Advanced Optical Technologies, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) recognizes young researchers for their outstanding research and provides them with research funds and a guest professorship at FAU. This year, Samuel Grauer, PhD, received the YRA.

Top managers from industry and society strengthen links between academia, industry and society, and spur innovation on in the process: That is the idea behind the newly established CxO Council at FAU.

Revamped Bachelor’s degree program in Business Studies to start in winter semester 2022/23 at FAU The degree program will offer nine forward-looking specializations including traditional areas such as marketing or finance but also pioneering new fields such as data science and business intelligence, sustainability or digitalization, innovation and entrepreneurship.

A promising partnership on an equal footing: FAU has established a strategic partnership with Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU). The aim of the partnership is to strengthen science in Ukraine and to integrate research from Ukraine into European projects. At the same time, stable, shared perspectives between the two universities are to be created within the framework of long-term cooperation across all faculties at FAU.

Niels Rossow studied business administration at FAU from 1998 to 2002. After many years of employment at Adidas, the native of Nuremberg is now the commercial director of 1. FC Nuremberg (Club). In the interview, Niels Rossow provides insights into his work at the soccer club and also reports on the kick-off of the dual degree program at the Department of Economics and Social Sciences in cooperation with FAU.

As a result of climate change, more and more people in cities are exposed to flooding, extreme temperatures, and water or food shortages. The infrastructure of major cities can be damaged by landslides, flooding, or temperature events, with cascading effects throughout the city. Power outages can affect water pumping, traffic control, street lighting, and hospitals, schools, and homes.

Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers’ hearts miss a beat. We are talking about historical photographic plates showing negatives of the night sky. Together with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and the universities of Hamburg and Tartu (Estonia), researchers at FAU have now digitized the astronomical images and published them online at  www.plate-archive.org.

More diverse, heterogeneous, colorful and lively: Theater culture in the Early Modern period in the Holy Roman Empire was certainly very different to the theater we have been familiar with since the theater of the ‘Bildungsbürger’ of the late 18th century.

The more wind and solar energy is used, the less yield they generate on energy markets. Mario Liebensteiner, professor of energy markets and energy systems analysis, explains why this is the case and how considerably higher CO2 prices could mitigate this effect.

Christian Schmidt tells us how he managed to study law at FAU without actually going to a German grammar school, or Gymnasium, like the vast majority of his fellow students. Lots of different paths lead to the same destination.