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From 1 February, Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch will become the new Vice President People at FAU. A vast majority of the University Council voted for the 61 year old chemist in a postal ballot. Hirsch will succeed the medical expert Prof. Dr. Friedrich Paulsen.

A research group at FAU and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy have come up with a design aimed at significantly increasing the operational stability and life span of perovskite solar cells. The researchers’ findings have been published in the journal ‘Nature Energy’.

After going through a highly competitive selection process, researcher Prof. Dr. Stefan Uderhardt has been successful in his bid for project funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Uderhardt, who works at Department of Medicine 3 at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, has been awarded a total of approximately 1.5 million euros for his project over the next five years.

Many of the fossils found worldwide are in the possession of natural history museums in the West or kept in private collections. The data collected about fossil finds and excavations are also predominantly located in richer countries. This is the subject of criticism from a research team led by Nussaibah Raja-Schoob, a doctoral candidate at the Chair of Palaeobiology at FAU.

Strengthening the immune response at the location where the virus enters the body. A team led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Überla and Prof. Dr. Matthias Tenbusch at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at FAU is currently conducting research into a vaccine that is administered as a nose or mouth spray and forms local antibodies in the mucous membranes. The project has received 280,000 euros of further funding.

A new study also confirms lower effectiveness of vaccines and decreasing immunity among those who have recovered from the disease, but the booster vaccine helps.

FAU as you've (perhaps) never seen it before: Several times a week, you can find insights and views about the university and student life on Instagram under the name uni_fau,

The year is drawing to a close and Christmas is just around the corner. FAU wishes everyone a happy holiday season and a happy new year.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun from the Institute of Geography at FAU observes, measures and researches glaciers, ice shelves, mountain ranges and polar regions. For his latest round of measurements, he travelled to South Patagonia and took to the skies in the research aircraft Polar 5.

FAU congratulates former president Prof. Dr. Karl-Dieter Grüske on his 75th birthday Grüske, an economist, served at FAU from 2002 to 2015, initially as rector and then as president from 2010. During his tenure, he reformed the university structure and successfully accompanied two excellence initiatives.