Research

Human-caused climate change increases wildfire by intensifying its principal driving factor – heat. The heat of climate change dries out vegetation and accelerates burning. Analyses show that cross the western U.S., higher temperatures caused by human-caused climate change doubled burned area from 1984 to 2015, compared with what would have burned without climate change.

Materials science and engineering at FAU is once more ranked among the top 100 in the world in 2022 according to the latest QS World University Subject Ranking. Overall FAU is rated as one of the top 250 universities worldwide for six subjects.

The messenger substance interleukin 3 produced by the body has been considered up to now as pro-inflammatory in bronchial asthma. A research team from Universitätsklinikum Erlangen has now shown for the first time that the administration of interleukin-3, or IL-3 for short, can have a positive effect on chronic inflammatory respiratory disease.

Human health and well-being are highly dependent on the “health” of nature. Studies show that being in direct contact with natural environments has direct positive effects on well-being, health and socio-cognitive abilities.

Do they have dementia or not? Relatives or carers can use this digital questionnaire to estimate cognitive decline in affected individuals.

More than 6 million euros in funding for research into the air in classrooms: researchers hope to identify pollutants that may trigger asthma in children.

Anyone who was unemployed carries the mental scars from this experience years after starting a new job. This is the conclusion reached by the Chair of Empirical Economic Sociology at FAU.

Cybersecurity affects us all, including private households, small and medium sized enterprises and public authorities. The new Bavarian research cluster ‘ForDaySac – Security in everyday digitalisation’ has been established with the aim of improving the security of digital infrastructure in future. Researchers from FAU are also involved.

MRI is a reliable and non-evasive imaging procedure that delivers accurate results. This is the area Dr. Simon Lévy specialises in, and for which he has recently received the prestigious scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The funding will allow him to develop new methods for carrying out MRI scans of the spinal cord.

Over the next three years, researchers at FAU hope to design a wearable device for monitoring the breathing of patients with chronic diseases such as asthma or bronchitis. Methods from artificial intelligence will be used to automatically classify and evaluate data.