Research

The fifth generation of mobile communications 5G was only introduced in 2020, and now the German government is already providing funding for research into its successor. The industrial package 6G-ANNA, in which FAU is involved, is aimed at spurring the development of 6G from Germany and Europe.

Cereal, milk and meat were the staple diet of people in Britain as long as 5500 years ago. By carrying out a chemical analysis of lipid residues in well-preserved ceramics, a research team led by the University of Bristol and including researchers from FAU have proven for the first time that people in stone age Britain not only consumed barley, but also wheat.

Approximately 250 million years ago, more than 80 percent of all maritime species became extinct after volcanic eruptions in Siberia released huge quantities of greenhouse gases and caused the atmosphere to heat up. A team of researchers were able to calculate that temperatures rose by approximately 10 degrees Celsius, beginning in a period long before the peak of the mass extinction.

From cloudy glasses to deposits in dishwashers – limescale is a ubiquitous problem. An international research collaboration led by two researchers at FAU has now investigated which substances could be added to washing up liquid to prevent the build-up of limescale. Knowledge about the mechanisms involved can be used to develop more sustainable ingredients.

In einer kürzlich in der Fachzeitschrift Science veröffentlichten Arbeit haben Chekhova und ihre Kolleg*innen zum ersten Mal gezeigt, wie Metasurfaces Paare von Photonen zweier unterschiedlicher Wellenlängen erzeugen.

Researchers from Erlangen prove that booster vaccination is effective for people with rheumatism, as well as inflammatory bowel and skin diseases.

FAU researchers presented their initial successes in their work for people suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. The researchers from Erlangen were able to prove that there are objectively measurable parallels between Long Covid and ME/CFS.

In recognition of our outstanding expertise in quantum research: a consortium consisting of eleven researchers from FAU will receive roughly three million euros in funding by 2025. The new lighthouse project Quantum Measurement and Control for the Enablement of Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing will ignite basic research into quantum computing, sensing and imaging, combining physics and electrical engineering in new ways in the field of light and matter.

One of the rare diseases is hereditary spastic paraplegia, a disease that causes spasms and weakness in the leg muscles, increasingly affecting mobility as the disease progresses. Approximately 77,000 people across Europe suffer from the condition. Researchers have already discovered that the disease starts in nerve cells in the brain. These are obviously particularly difficult to investigate.

The Erlangen location of the Bavarian Center for Cancer Research (BZKF) is providing start-up funding worth a total of 110,000 euros to three research projects at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. The aim of the projects is to conduct fundamental research into new therapeutic approaches for treating cancer.