Research

Which technologies are particularly suitable for storing heat? What storage sizes are sensible and economical for regional suppliers? What role do space requirements, costs and temperature ranges play? Two consecutive studies by FAU and Nuremberg Institute of Technology are addressing these questions.

Dr. Johanna Janson-Schmitt from the Chair of Health Psychology at FAU explains why it is not good to spend time pondering on a stressful experience and what mindfulness has to do with preventing stress from having negative repercussions on our health.

Redox reactions play an important role in many applications. Understanding them fundamentally is important for developing technologies. Researchers at FAU have succeeded for the first time in distinguishing between two related reaction mechanisms.

In a new study, FAU Professors Georg Schett and Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer want to investigate the underlying mechanisms of CAR T-cell therapy. They have received a grant of 600,000 dollars from the US Lupus Research Alliance.

Together with researchers from Denmark and France, the team around FAU professor Dr. Benoît Ladoux have discovered a previously unknown winning strategy in mechanical cell competition. They've published their results in Nature Materials.

Neurons in the hippocampus control our spatial learning, but are themselves very unstable. Researchers at FAU and the Leibniz Institute of Neurobiology (LIN) Magdeburg now want to decode these dynamics.

FAU astrophysicist Dr. Jonas Glombitza uses AI as an analysis catalyst for data from the Pierre Auger Observatory. His analysis is only the second in astroparticle physics in which machine learning has been used.

Increasing influence of anti-pluralist parties is often associated with lower academic freedom in the respective country. This is one of the findings of the latest Academic Freedom Index (AFI) which is being released March 13, 2025.

Quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not go together. The DFG is therefore funding physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wieland as part of the Heisenberg program to develop an approach that reconciles the two theories in a specific problem area.

Physicists are still asking themselves today: does quantum mechanics need hypercomplex numbers? FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have investigated the question.