Research

How can we achieve personal well-being and life satisfaction? How important are values? FAU researchers led by Prof. Dr. Andrea Abele-Brehm at the University's Chair of Social Psychology have addressed these questions.

An international working group involving FAU researchers has shown that various types of parasites are spreading rapidly as a result of rising sea levels. Their findings have been published in the renowned American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the animal kingdom just the smell of blood has an irresistible effect on carnivores. If a predator smells blood it knows that dinner is not far away. But what are the characteristic components of blood in mammals? Aroma researchers at FAU have recently analysed it and made some surprising discoveries.

Scientists at FAU awarded $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve the crop yield of the cassava plant

The instant messaging service WhatsApp has around 600 million users worldwide, is firmly integrated into everyday life and is used on smartphones more often than the telephone function, but what about the security of its users' privacy? The Chair of Computer Science 1 at FAU has investigated this.

Until now, it has not been possible to analyse data from free text which could be used to draw conclusions about the efficacy of medications and treatments in hospitals. Over the past three years, medical IT experts at FAU have developed cloud architecture which makes this possible.

A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Fred Krüger from FAU's Institute of Geography have made a key contribution to the latest disasters report from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies which looks at the significance of culture and social processes in affected areas.

An FAU researcher has recently shown that the red coralline algae which live in the Arctic form niches for many species due to their unique shape.

To give children from disadvantaged families the opportunity to access positive educational and development processes at an early stage by getting specially qualified parent guides to inform and create interest among parents – this was the goal of a federal programme which has now come to an end.

A working group led by Prof. Dr. Andriy Mokhir from the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has recently succeeded in regulating biochemical processes with non-toxic light and the results of this research have now been published.