Research

FAU is among the universities in Germany that receive the highest amounts of third-party funding from research funding organisations and government ministries, especially in the field of engineering. FAU is ranked first in Bavaria according to the DFG Funding Atlas.

The dream of travelling through time – whether to the future or to the past – is as old as mankind itself. Researchers at FAU are involved in a European research project which intends to make this dream come true – figuratively at least. In our interview, Prof. Dr. Andreas Maier, Department of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition Lab), among others explains how this time travel works.

Dr. Tallal Osama Elshabrawy, Ph. D., from Egypt has more than 10 years of experience in physical and MAC layer research within telecommunications networks. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Elshabrawy conducted doctoral research at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he was then awarded a PhD. He will further his research at FAU´s Chair of Information Technology with a focus on Communication Electronics until November 2018.

What effect do large-scale weather patterns have on Bavarian forest ecosystems? What role is played by regional climate conditions? What do school pupils know about climate change? Researchers at FAU have been investigating these questions in a new joint project named BayTreeNet with the help of so-called talking trees.

Prof. Suman Chakraborty was born and raised in India. Currently, he is professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, India. Prof. Chakraborty is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), the American Physical Society, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian Academy of Science (IAS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). His research interests are microfluidics and microscale transport processes. From May to June 2018, Prof. Chakraborty is a visiting scientist at the Chair of Computer Science 10 (System Simulation) at FAU.

From 2005 to 2007, Dr. He completed his PhD at the Virginia Tech. Dr. He´s research interests are comprehensive and range from computational fluid dynamics to particle models for plasma simulation. From March to August 2018, he will further is studies at the Institute for Informatics 10 (System Simulation) at FAU.

Generating more electricity from solar cells and conducting further research into so-called singlet fission. This is what scientists at FAU are currently working on as part of a joint research project conducted in collaboration with Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA.

The Bertha Benz Prize was awarded for the tenth time on 14 June 2018 as part of the Bertha Benz lecture programme in Heidelberg. Dr. Silvia Budday from the Faculty of Engineering at FAU has been awarded the prize for her doctoral thesis 'The Role of Mechanics during Brain Development'.

FAU has received an excellent rating in the international U-Multirank university ranking for 2018 in the Research and Knowledge Transfer categories.

Severe diarrhoea, stomach pain, cramps – these are the most common symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Morbus Crohn or Colitis ulcerosa. A new collaborative research centre at FAU is focusing on this area.