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Functional carbon particles can transform sunlight into energy and extract hydrogen from water. FAU chemist Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi is researching the carbon dots, amongst others with the help of AI.

Man-made climate change knows no limits. In future, the AGELESS consortium will investigate how marine life in our oceans affected by climate change can be protected beyond national areas of jurisdiction.

Another episode of "A cup with the president": FAU president Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger visits Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle, who holds the Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics.

Once you are a student at FAU, e-mails are sent to your own university inbox. This happens automatically once you activate your user ID in the IdM portal and reserve an @fau.de address. You can either access e-mails using the webmail interface in your browser or an e-mail programme like Outlook or Thunderbird. Or, if you prefer, you can forward your e-mails to your personal inbox.

As a physicist, Gabriele Chiogna is used to working on complex equations. However, it is not enough to understand how the availability and quality of water will change during the coming years. The answer to this problem varies greatly, depending on how we use this vital resource in the future.

Physics student Anabel Kummer took part in the seminar “Radiation objects that made history” and examined the effects of science on our society. She talks about her experiences here.

Researcher Dr. Thomas Koller will definitely be taking part in the run “Lauf gegen Krebs” on October 12 in Erlangen’s Schlossgarten - and he recommends everyone to join in!

FAU researchers have discovered that colorectal tumors respond better than previously to immunotherapy if a protein associated with gene regulation, ZEB1, is switched off in cancer-associated fibroblasts.

Alina Zohner studied Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Information Technology at FAU and now works at Diehl Defence as a development engineer for signal processing and FPGA design. In the video she talks about her experiences during her studies and career as a woman in a male-dominated industry.

At the end of July, FAU and its Ukrainian partner university Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU) organized a one week summer school with the title "State Building in (Post)War Reality". Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the program offered a number of opportunities for rich cultural and educational exchange.