Research

In early modern times, magical rituals were part of the body of knowledge of the educated classes of society. A researcher from FAU investigated a previously undiscovered collection of 140 ritual magical manuscripts.

Many industrial service processes including analysing machine data and resource management are involved in production. FAU scientists and partners from research and industry are developing a cloud platform to optimise industrial service processes.

Researchers at the IT Security Infrastructures group, FAU have discovered security problems in smart lights manufactured by GE, IKEA, Philips and Osram.

Neuroscientists at FAU have joined forces with human geneticists at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg to develop a new approach to the treatment of rare genetic conditions such as Noonan syndrome.

FAU researchers and their colleagues at the University of Bayreuth investigated whether an artificial silk protein developed in the laboratory could be suitable for engineering cardiac tissue.

A group of researchers at FAU and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen is investigating how patient safety, patient awareness and patient well-being can be improved when patients start a course of treatment with new, orally administered anti-cancer agents.