Research

A research group led by Prof. Karl Mandel (Professorship of Inorganic Chemistry) at FAU has developed a magnetic particle marker which can be used to mark materials easily and which can be read using a handy device. The research findings have been published in the journal Small.

FAU has established a new professorship focusing on digital sovereignty. The University is pleased to welcome a leading expert involved in shaping the digital transformation to the post, Johannes Helbig. With its new subject area, FAU is expanding its expertise in the area of digitalisation, data science and digital humanities, acting as a pioneer among German universities.

Young refugees are generally very religious. This became clear during a pilot study run by FAU in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories in Bamberg. Prof. Dr. Manfred Pirner, who specialises in religious education, surveyed 45 young Muslims, orthodox Christians and Yazidis from Nuremberg, Leipzig and Berlin.

The aim of the new Collaborative Research Centre is to create sensor technology and gather movement data for the human body.

The traits of coral species that have become extinct during the last few million years do not match those of coral species deemed at risk of extinction today. A research team at FAU has therefore proposed a revision of the Red List for coral.

The ‘PALLADiUM’ research project develops digital system for supporting interprofessional palliative care teams

Rheumatism, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis are examples of diseases which trigger a false, excessive immune reaction and which require treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs. Researchers at the German Centre for Immunotherapy at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have now investigated how well these patients react to Covid-19 vaccinations.

Researchers from FAU and other research institutions from the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate are investigating how to ensure and improve medical care in rural areas during the coronavirus pandemic in a model project funded by the BMBF. Mathematically-based optimisation and...

At many banks, insurance companies and online retailers, self-learning computer algorithms are used to make decisions that have major consequences for customers. However, just how algorithms in artificial intelligence (AI) represent and process their input data internally is largely unknown. Researchers at the Pattern Recognition Lab and the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group at FAU and the Neuroscience Laboratory at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, the Aix-Marseille Université in Marseille, France, and York University in Toronto, Canada, examined the problem of ‘black boxes’ in artificial intelligence and developed a method that makes these processes visible.

The latest findings of an FAU research team will revolutionise the entire chemistry of magnesium. The research team have discovered magnesium, which usually has a double positive charge in chemical compounds, in the elemental zero-oxidation state.