Research

Soft materials such as rubber or silicone can easily tear under tensile load. In a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), researchers at FAU are looking for ways to make them more stable.

A research team from FAU, KIT and HI ERN has developed a closed workflow that can be used to find optimal high-performance materials for perovskite solar cells (PSC) in a short space of time.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)’s fleet is growing: After the reconstruction of two ancient Roman patrol boats, the F.A.N. and the Danuvia alacris, Prof. Dr. Boris Dreyer, professor of Ancient History at FAU, is now building another boat. The boat in question is a flat-bottomed cargo ship or barge.

“Our rights, our future, right now” is the motto of this year´s International Human Rights Day. It is intended to draw attention to the importance of human rights for the present and the future. But what is the state of human rights and what challenges do research and society face? An interview with Prof. Dr. Grażyna Baranowska.

Dr. Lars Lott, an FAU scientist, is this year's winner of the “Fundamental Academic Values Award”. The academic from the Institute of Political Science receives the second prize of 6,000 euros for his analysis of the phases of growth and decline of academic freedom in historical comparison.

Two mobile radioisotope laboratories in eleven countries? That's possible! Historian of nuclear science, Maria Rentetzi, explains her research on how two mobile radioisotope laboratories were offered as gifts to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the United States.

Funded by the German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM) with 180,000 euros, FAU researchers are hoping to develop a new method to examine the brains of newborns by combinging new high-speed ultrasound devices with AI Imaging. The high resolution images could help detect stroke and and aspyhxia in babies.

The Shanghai subject ranking 2024 has been published, and FAU is listed among the 100 most prestigious universities in the world in four subjects. In Germany, FAU even managed to jump into the top 10 in seventeen subjects.

Since 2020, very many people across the globe have been vaccinated against Covid-19, but the exact structure of this vaccine has remained largely unknown until now. Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh from the Chair of Crystallography at FAU and his team are now taking a closer look. The results of their complex analyses differ at times considerably from previous expectations. Active substances and pharmaceutical excipients incorporated in these mRNA vaccines appear not to be solid, as was previously suspected, but instead consist of numerous liquid nano droplets.

Oracles, prayers, dance – what do these topics have in common? That is what the researchers from the KFG “Alternative rationalities and esoteric practices from a global perspective” hope to answer. In this interview, the group's speaker Prof. Dr. Michael Lackner discusses the term esoteric, explains their objectives and challenges and shares his own personal highlights.