Research

Ageing and a low life expectancy are caused, at least partly, by oxidative stress. A team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović from the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry at FAU, together with researchers from the USA, have discovered that zinc can activate an organic molecule, helping to protect against oxidative stress.

Global sea level is rising constantly. One factor contributing to this rise is the melting of the glaciers. However, although the surface area of the glaciers has been well mapped, there is often no information regarding their thickness, making it impossible to calculate their volume. As a result, we cannot accurately calculate the effects on sea levels. Dr. Johannes Fürst has developed an approach which can be used to draw up regional ice thickness maps for glaciers.

Researchers at FAU are investigating healthy ingredients in beer win the research grant from the European Foundation for Alcohol Research and the European Brewery Convention, worth 60,000 euros.

Combining two statistical methods that are fundamentally different. Dr. Elisabeth Waldmann from FAU has received the Freigeist Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation for her innovative and unusual research project.

There was not a single paper mill in Amsterdam until the 19th century. Despite this fact, it was the location of the most important centre of the paper industry in Europe in the 17th and 18th century and Prof. Dr. Daniel Bellingradt from the Institute of Book Studies is conducting research to find out why.

Advancing scientific collaboration and allowing experience to be gathered in an international environment – just two of the objectives of the MIT Germany Program, an initiative of the renowned MIT, in which FAU is also involved.

Nanoparticles are to be used like transporters to deliver medication in a targeted manner exactly where it is required in the human body? The nanoparticles should react to ultrasound frequencies. This is what FAU researchers are currently working on.

Researchers at FAU have discovered that proteins that were previously associated with longevity and anti-ageing also play an important role during the formation and positioning of synapses.

The earliest predators appeared on Earth 480 million years ago – and they even had teeth which were capable of repairing themselves. A team of palaeontologists led by Bryan Shirley and Madleen Grohganz from the Chair for Palaeoenvironmental Research at FAU have been able to discover more about how these organisms were able to grow and regenerate their teeth.

Six percent of the world's CO2 emissions are generated by steel production. For this reason, researchers at FAU have now initiated the i3upgrade project in conjunction with partners from all over Europe to process the CO2 from the steel manufacturing process in order to reduce emissions.