Research

A new research project is investigating concepts of successful aging. The Federal Ministry of Health is funding the project with around 230,000 euros.

Chemists at FAU headed by Prof. Dr. Svetlana B. Tsogoeva at the Chair of Organic Chemistry I have made research into pharmaceutical ingredient synthesis more efficient, more sustainable and more environmentally friendly.

We've all heard it: eating salty foods makes you thirstier. But what sounds like good nutritional advice turns out to be an old-wives' tale. In a study carried out during a simulated mission to Mars, an international group of scientists has found exactly the opposite to be true. “Cosmonauts” who ate more salt retained more water, weren't as thirsty, and needed more energy.

40 years ago, the renowned Geologist Erik Flügel initiated a course where the microscopic analysis of limestone thin sections is central. The so-called "Flügel-Kurs" is held in high esteem by international researchers.

FAU researchers help develop research infrastructure in Slovakia: “FunGlass” is the title of an EU project with funds of 15 million euros aimed at establishing a new centre of excellence in the Slovakian city of Trencin.

In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research, Carolin Freier researched new ways for integrating the long-term unemployed into the labour market in her doctoral thesis.

FAU has an excellent international reputation. This is reflected in the large number of renowned international researchers who choose FAU as their host university as part of a fellowship or research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

For the first time, FAU engineers have succeeded in producing complex crystal lattices, so-called clathrates, from nanoparticles using DNA strands. Their findings have recently been published in the acclaimed journal ‘Science’.

Canadian Dr. Mike Sinding has been a fellow at ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, from 2015 until 2017, where he worked on his postdoctoral project “Genre Dynamics and Functions: Blending, Framing and Worldview”. The focus of his research is on defining cognitive models of tragedy, comedy, their blended forms, and their roles in framing political discourse.