Research

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

A team of researchers at FAU led by Dr. Stefan Schwab is researching effective pesticides for organic wine growing. The researchers hope to use the microencapsulation principle to tackle the problem of downy mildew, a serious fungal infection which affects vines.

Growth of colorectal cancer cells can be greatly reduced. A team of researchers led by Dr. Dominic Bernkopf from FAU has developed a peptide which is capable of penetrating colorectal cancer cells and significantly decelerating their growth rate. The researchers' findings have recently been published in the journal Nature Communications.

What role does AI have to play in assisting people at home and helping them run their houses more efficiently? Questions such as these will be investigated by the ForeSight project at FAU, which has received funding for the next three years within the context of the German Federal government’s initiative ‘Artificial intelligence as a driver for economically relevant ecosystems.’

After three months of space flight, the time has finally come: The first pictures of the space telescope eROSITA, which FAU also designed components for, have arrived. Scientists were able to observe the Large Magellanic Cloud with the telescope’s seven X-ray detectors.

A research team at Google has now successfully carried out a computation using a quantum computer that would have taken thousands of years with the fastest supercomputer Prof. Dr. Michael. J. Hartmann from FAU was part of the research team involved in developing this quantum computer. We spoke to Prof. Hartmann about the project and future applications of quantum computing.

Prof. Dr. Ali is a world-renowned expert in the field of Dacryology. Already in March 2018 he told us about his research stay at FAU. Now Prof. Dr. Ali is again in Erlangen to further his research. We met him to find out what had happened since his last stay.

FAU has secured its place as leading innovator in Germany

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

FAU is involved in a new European training network for doctoral researchers. The 14 research projects focus on the question of how to improve modelling and simulation of complex mechanical systems on computers in future. The European Union is providing approximately 3.6 million euros in funding over a period of four years, with roughly 250,00 euros being allocated to FAU.