Research

Stroke, depression and dementia: these are associated with micro-failures in brain communication. FAU researchers are looking at what exactly happens in these situations and are hoping to identify possible ways of preventing permanent brain damage and speeding up the healing processes.

These training programmes, which are provided online and can also be accessed using a smartphone, are designed to help sufferers prevent and deal with depression. Researchers at FAU have won awards for their work in this field.

FAU-based scientist publishes feasibility study of carbon dioxide-free heavy goods road transport.

Chemical engineers, chemists and physicists of the Excellence Cluster Engineering of Advanced Materials at FAU develop a fundamentally new material concept for use in catalysis

In the annual Times Higher Education World University Ranking, the FAU was again listed among the top 200 universities for 2018.

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.

Computer scientists at FAU and partners are developing a method to adapt computers to future processing requirements as part of the SFB/Transregio 89 “Invasive Computing” project.

Researchers at FAU and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Halle have managed to find the answer to one of the riddles of solid-state physics. The results of their work recently appeared in the prominent journal Nature Communications.

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.