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FAU will be holding a special event for its alumni this year for the very first time – the FAU Alumni Day 2022. On Saturday, June 25, 2002, alumni from all over the world will return to their alma mater to meet up with their former fellow students and their friends, make new contacts and reminisce about their time at FAU. During presentations and interviews and at the info stands at the event, alumni will get the opportunity to find out what’s going on at their FAU.

It is not just FAU's extraordinary national and international reputation, or its strength in generating innovation that make the university stand out from the crowd. In addition, it is among the Top 10 universities that bring forth successful executives in Germany.

Until June 19, all students at FAU have the opportunity to have their say about their studies in the FAU student survey (FAU-St) 2022. The evaluation from last year’s survey showed that in spite of the unusual situation caused by the pandemic, the majority of students are satisfied with their studies at FAU.

After being canceled for two years in a row due to the pandemic, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has now once more invited guests to attend the awards ceremony for the prestigious Humboldt professorships in Berlin. FAU has two reasons to celebrate: both the medical physicist Prof. Dr. Kristian Franze and mathematics historian and sinologist Prof. Dr. Dr. Andrea Bréard received an award.

Simulating complex scientific models on the computer or processing large volumes of data such as editing video material takes considerable computing power and time. Researchers from the Chair of Laser Physics at FAU and a team from the University of Rochester in New York have demonstrated how the speed of fundamental computing operations could be increased in future to up to a million times faster using laser pulses.

On Thursday May 12, 2022, the physicist Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is to receive the most prestigious research prize in Germany, also known as the German Nobel Prize: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. The prize is worth 2.5 million euros, significantly more than the Nobel Prize.

When stars like our Sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team led by FAU has now been able to observe such an explosion of X-ray light for the very first time.

Explore the metropolitan region at night and find out what science has in store for the future: the tenth Long Night of Sciences is taking place on Saturday, May 21, with a number of open air events on offer.

Major success for FAU researchers: The DFG has approved funding for two new research training groups (RTG) and has extended funding for an existing RTG. This means that the DFG is providing around 15.3 million euros of funding for young researchers at FAU who are completing doctoral degrees in the fields of linguistics, literature studies, and applied mathematics.

How can we build efficient electric cars? What makes an e-bike company successful? How can we decarbonize mobility? The answers to these questions and many more will be provided during our six-part lecture series called “Innovation in Mobility”. The invited speakers are successful entrepreneurs from the e-mobility sector, such as Eric Bach, CTO of Lucid Group, Roland Edel, CTO of Siemens Mobility, and former rally driver Walter Röhrl.