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Your journey to FAU
Regardless of whether your journey at FAU starts with training, studying, research or any other type of occupation, the University offers help and advice for all stages of your career, pages with information and contacts to assist you.
People at FAU work in administration, teaching or in research, study at one of our five faculties and often keep close ties with the University after they have finished their studies. We have put together information for students, researchers, staff and alumni on the following pages.
Jugend forscht is 60 years old! And just like last year, the regional competition took place at FAU. The young people brought along many unusual projects - for example a floating yellow garbage can or a model of a room for cheat-free exams. Find out more!
FAU astronomer Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki and her doctoral student Federico Zangrandi have discovered two new supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Supernovae play an important role in the formation of new stars. What does this role look like?
A boy is born with a congenital heart defect - much too early, in the 29th week of pregnancy with only 1,200 grams. Thanks to the courageous intervention of an interdisciplinary and interprofessional team at Erlangen Children's Hospital, he survived.
Researchers at FAU have investigated the dynamics of extracellular vesicles in order to decipher their significance for cell differentiation and organ formation. The results hold potential for human medicine, as extracellular vesicles could be used for targeted drug delivery.
Hospitals all over the world have very large CO2 footprints. Anesthetic gases in particular are a factor that causes a significant proportion of emissions in hospitals. This is something an interprofessional team at the Department of Anesthesiology at Uniklinikum Erlangen wants to change.
