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This year, the competition "Jugend forscht" for the region of Middle Franconia took place over two days at the Department of Physics at FAU. On February 27 and 28, the young researchers presented their projects in the assembly hall of the new building of the Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics...

"Mach dir einen Kopf! (Make up your mind!)" - this is the motto of this year's "Jugend forscht"  and "Schüler experimentieren" competitions. On February 27 and 28, 2024, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) will host the regional competition in Middle Franconia for the first time...

Star corpses, jets of matter and white dwarfs Supernova remnants, black holes, neutron stars and the hot interstellar gas of the Milky Way and other galaxies - the sky is full of sources that emit X-rays. Researchers at the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory - Astronomical Institute of the Erlangen Centre...

Johannes Bartl investigates the behavior of emperor penguins Johannes Bartl is a physics doctoral student at FAU and a member of a team that uses high-resolution cameras to study emperor penguins and their behavior. Their habitat is under severe threat due to climate change: if the ice at the South...

After an exciting regional competition hosted by the Erlanger SchülerForschungsZentrum (Erlangen Student Research Center) and the regional GYPT base, three students from Erlangen and Nuremberg have qualified to take part in the national competition in Bad Honnef. At the annual nationwide physics ...

Eileen Schneider, PhD-Student at the Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik of Prof. Janina Maultzsch, has been awarded the 2023 grant of the Dr. Isolde-Dietrich-Stiftung. The grant consists of the Phd-Student position and additional research funding for the next 4 years. The Dr. Isolde-Dietrich-Stiftu...

Under the title "Magnets, spins and resonances - how did Santa get in and out of the MRI scanner?", an interdisciplinary working group of researchers from the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and the Department of Physics will take you on a journey of discovery into the human body at this year's Depart...

The German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ) and ZEISS have honored Professor Dr. Jochen Guck with the Carl Zeiss Lecture 2023. This award recognizes internationally outstanding achievements in cell biology and microscopy methods that are groundbreaking for research into cell biology issues. Guck is Pr...

Since 2005 the FAU  awards the Renate Wittern Sterzel Prize annually. The prize is named after the first FAU women's representative who founded the equality prize. Innovative projects to promote equality, exemplary measures to constructively deal with and promote diversity and outstanding succes...