Research

Researchers at FAU have evaluated the [U25] online suicide prevention programme offered by the Caritas Association and can now provide some interim results.

Led by astronomers from FAU, an international consortium has recently discovered a new high-velocity star. These are stars which move at great speed through the Milky Way, sometimes travelling so fast that they may eventually leave our galaxy.

Laser physicist Dr. Michael Krüger has been awarded the prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) He is now researching and teaching at Technion in Haifa, Israel but FAU’s Institute of Laser Physics was instrumental in the successful grant application while Krüger was at the University.

Prof. Dr. Arnd Dörfler involved in developing an ultra high field magnetic resonance scanner

Prof. Dr. Angela Roth, Chair of Information Systems, Innovation and Value Creation, about AI in service systems.

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

Facebook and Instagram are known to cause stress in users, known as technostress from social media. However, when faced with such stress, instead of switching off or using them less, people are moving from one aspect of the social media platforms to another – escaping the causes of their stress without leaving the medium on which it originated.

Bavarian Hydrogen Centre to be founded in Nuremberg

What causes crowns, bridges and implants to fracture? And can this be prevented? Every two years, Prof. Ulrich Lohbauer and his team offer a unique course on this subject for their colleagues in the field, who come from all over the world to attend.

ERC Starting Grant for physician Dr Andreas Ramming