Research

Researchers from FU Berlin, FAU and Universität Ulm have made a significant contribution to the wet chemical synthesis of graphene from graphite, defining the mechanism on which it is based.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common autoimmune disease of the joints: endogenous defense cells, which are produced by the body, attack the joints and a chronic inflammation develops. Humboldt Research Fellow Dr. Dr. Koshiro Sonomoto will conduct research on the mechanism underlying rheumatoid arthritis at the Department of Medicine 3, Rheumatology and Immunology led by Prof. Dr. med. univ. Georg Schett during the following months.

Dr Mohammad Javed Ali is a globally known name in the field of Dacryology, the science that deals with the tear ducts and tears drainage. As Ophthalmology clinician, he is among the rare recipients of the “Experienced Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship”. He would stay at FAU for 4 months each year starting in 2017.

Dr. Garcia started his scientific career at his home country Venezuela, where he obtained a Masters degree in Physics, working on the calculation of atomic data required for astrophysics. Dr. Garcia is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working as a Science Team Member of NASA’s X-ray mission NuSTAR. He is also a visiting Research Associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and now a Senior Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

In 2015, Dr. Srivathsan carried out postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, where he focused on free space coupling of light and a single atom using a 4-π parabolic mirror. Since November 2016, he furthers his studies at the Chair of Optics at FAU as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow. His research interests are experimental quantum optics, atom-light interaction and quantum information among others.

In a new study, FAU palaeobiologists and their research partners have shown that signs that the largest mass extinction event in the Earth's history was approaching became apparent much earlier than previously believed, and point out that the same indicators can be observed today.

A groundbreaking project titled 'MoveIT' has been launched to analyse the gait and falls of people with Parkinson's. Using telemedicine based on sensors placed in patients' shoes and attached to their upper body, researchers aim to analyse specific characteristics in the patient's gait and when they fall.

For the very first time, scientists from FAU, the University of Leicester and the University of Vigo have proven that the kinetic energy from particles in granular gases such as dust clouds can rise temporarily even though energy is constantly being drawn out of the system. Their research adds further detail to Haff's law (devised 35 years ago), which states that the granular temperature in closed systems continually decreases.

World's largest study defines optimum time frame for administering anticoagulants.

The goal of MIRACUM, a consortium coordinated by the Chair of Medical Informatics at FAU and which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is to improve the way patient data can be used for research and patient care.