Research

Psychologists at FAU want to help patients who have just been discharged from hospital remain abstinent over the long term with a combination of an app and telephone coaching aimed at helping them find suitable services and measures tailored to their situation.

FAU researchers have developed a miniaturised multi-photon microscope, which will make cell and tissue imaging without synthetic contrast agents possible in future.

Dr. Adran Regensburger, a doctor in the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen has received the ‘Young Investigator Award’ for his work in molecular imaging in children with muscular dystrophy.

FAU welcomes a new Humboldt award winner: On 29 March 2019, Prof. Frank den Hollander from Mathematisch Instituut Universiteit Leiden, received the Humboldt Research Award in a special ceremony.

Can virtual worlds be relaxing? FAU informatics professor Björn Eskofier is working in this field in cooperation with other scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2018, the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at FAU signed a cooperation agreement with the renowned University of California in Berkeley (UCB). Two doctoral candidates from FAU are already due to spend three months in California this autumn. The first two doctoral candidates from California are also due to visit Erlangen this year.

Mental strain at work, while studying or at home has increased in recent years. It can make itself apparent in anxiety or a tendency towards depression and has a negative impact on the lives of those affected. The Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at FAU is involved in three international research projects aimed at providing online training options for those affected by mental health issues, among others.

Amir-Abbas Yousefi Amin does his PhD at FAU´s Chair of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology. Together with other researchers, Mr. Amin developed the next generation of infrared sensors, which are fabricated by using printing technologies. Mr. Amin and his team now had a special honor: As one of only three teams, they were invited to present a prototype of their sensors at the renowned LOPEC trade fair and congress in Munich.