Research

A new research building for astroparticle physics at FAU

How will the role of doctors and patients change if AI is used in diagnostic procedures? Who is responsible for the consequences of AI-assisted processes in clinical contexts? FAU ethicist Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock and his team are working on a research project to investigate these questions.

Neuroscientists at FAU and the University of Birmingham have researched how different regions of the brain cooperate to create and retrieve memories. Their results may help improve the treatment of memory disorders in future.

In recognition of her research, FAU computer scientist Elisabeth Hoppe from the Pattern Recognition Lab has been shortlisted for the AI newcomer of the year award by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society). We met to discuss her research approach and what she finds so fascinating about artificial intelligence.

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.