Research

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.

Intramolecular reactions make it possible for solar energy to be transformed and stored in a single molecule. This may form the basis for constructing energy-storing solar cells. FAU is currently investigating this topic in two research projects.

Biotechnologists at FAU have successfully developed proteins that function like a shuttle and release medication directly in the place in the body where they are actually needed

FAU remains at the top of one of the most prestigious categories in the QS World University Ranking.

The collaborative research centre/Transregio 89 'Invasive computing' has been granted funding for a further four years. The DFG has provided 10 million euros for researching future parallel computing systems. The collaborative research centre/Transregio 89 is coordinated by the Chair for Hardware/Software Co-Design at FAU.