Research

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 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.

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.

Physicists at FAU have for the first time been able to prove a long-predicted but as yet unconfirmed fundamental effect. In Faraday chiral anisotropy, the propagation characteristics of light waves are changed simultaneously by the natural and magnetic-field induced material properties of the medium...

The mechanical properties of cells can reveal which diseases a patient is suffering from. Researchers at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen are taking advantage of this effect - and revolutionising diagnostics. Their goal: instead of costly examining blood samples in the laboratory, doctors should be able to analyse them quickly and reliably using AI-supported methods.