Research

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

A new study conducted at the Epilepsy Centre at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen shows that magnetoencephalography (MEG) significantly increases the success of surgery for epilepsy patients. It is the largest study of its kind to be performed on this subject with the longest period of investigation.

What are current challenges in AI research? For Prof. Dr. Martin Matzner, Chair of Digital Industrial Service Systems, the challenge is to create algorithms that perform well on practical data and not only in the laboratory.

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

Synthesising single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) is one of the greatest challenges faced by materials science. They can be synthesised using precursor molecules. Researchers at FAU have now developed a method for assembling these complex molecules from a few segments.

The Volkswagen Foundation will be providing funding worth nearly one million euros for palaeontology as a subject for the next seven years. With their project, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling, FAU, and Prof. Dr. Manuel Steinbauer from the University of Bayreuth hope to provide support to the field of palaeontology, set up networks, define joint research priorities and promote opportunities for young researchers.

In his research, the Romanian born Prof. Dr. Alexandru Babes currently focuses on the molecular mechanisms of sensory transduction in peripheral mammalian thermoreceptors and nociceptors. In 2002, he received his doctorate in biology from the University of Bucharest with “Summa cum laude”. In 2019, Prof. Dr. Babes was awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. This enables him together with Prof. Dr. med. Peter Reeh, Institute for Physiology and Patho-physiology at FAU, to carry out an opto-thermo-genetic research project.