Research

11,000 votes cast, 10 selected AI newcomers and one FAU doctoral candidate: Elisabeth Hoppe from the Chair of Pattern Recognition has been voted AI Newcomer of the Year together with nine other nominees.

Highly efficient power semiconductors are to pave the way for a wide range of novel applications – from e-mobility to artificial intelligence. This is the objective of the recently launched joint project "power transistors based on AlN (ForMikro-LeitBAN)" coordinated by the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and in which FAU is involved.

The German Research Foundation will establish a new Collaborative Research Centre. Two further CRCs which FAU is already participating in have been extended.

A research team led by FAU and involving other partners has presented the BATS bat-tracking system in Berlin, which automatically collects social contacts between wild animals on a second by second basis for the purpose of analysing social networks.

This year´s issues deals with all things hidden: things we lost sight of, objects too small for the bare eye to see. It also invites the reader to confront things they usually avoid: taboos. Some mechanisms we are not even aware of: Why do we behave the way we behave? And then there are secrets – everybody has them.

The Highly Cited Researchers List 2019 lists the world’s most influential researchers from 21 scientific disciplines, and this year it includes five FAU researchers.

The Earth is flat and facts have alternatives. Fake news and conspiracy theories are currently having a heyday. It is not only consumers, but also public figures from politics or the media who seem to fall for them, or even invent them themselves. Dr. Katrin Götz-Votteler and Dr. Simone Hespers from FAU have researched the matter.

The periodic table turns 150 this year. We took this as an opportunity to ask our scientists about their favorite element. Today: Dr. Puchta on beryllium.

Prof. Dr. Tentzeri's research interests include RF electronics, batteries and sensors manufactured using 3D printing or ink-jet processes, as well as green and sustainable energy harvesting, wireless energy transmission systems or the Internet of Things. He is the winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and works as a visiting scientist at FAU's Department of Technical Electronics in the development of new RF modules from the 3D printer.

Dr. Kristian Franze will receive funding of five million euros for his research