Research

Peter Hommelhoff, holder of the Chair of Laser Physics at FAU from 2012-2024, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Prize 2025 for his pioneering contributions to the ultrafast control of electrons and the associated establishment of new areas of research. The award ceremony, which includes prize money of 50,000 euros...

The QUBE research mission funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), in which researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are also involved, will test newly developed quantum communication technologies for the first time using miniature satellites in space. This will lay the foundation for ensuring the...

Since the end of 2020, a great many people worldwide have been vaccinated against Covid-19, but until now the exact structure of these vaccines was not known. Prof. Dr. Tobias Unruh from the Chair of Crystallography at FAU and his team have now begun to rectify this. The results of...

NOMAD CAMELS is an open-source software developed by the Chair of Applied Physics within the FAIRmat project. CAMELS controls experiments and acquires measurement data with a focus on individual experimental setups consisting of many (measurement) instruments. A special feature of CAMELS is that the measurement data is recorded in accordance...

eRO-STEP research group from the field of astrophysics receives further funding Neutron stars, supernova remnants and black holes: they all emit X-rays that help physicists to draw conclusions about the development of the universe. Until now, they have focused on objects in the Milky Way and its nearest satellite galaxies,...