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What do oat milk, the blue morpho butterfly and the Nuremberg Reichswald forest have in common? They are three topics of outstanding pre-scientific work with which pupils from Franconia have won a Dr. Hans Riegel prize. The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Dr. Hans Rie...

The project "ESFZ Student Research Camps for all kids of Durban" aims to establish the concept of the Erlangen Student Research Center and especially that of the research camps at the Erlangen Student Research Center at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, South Africa, and thus to rede...

For many years now, the Faculty of Science at FAU has been participating in Girls' Day, and this year the girls could expect an exciting and motivating program: The offer with contributions on the topics "Exploring the hidden physics in the animal world together", "The hot and energetic universe"...

Dr. Thomas Dauser from Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory and Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) at FAU has received this year’s Innovation Award from the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) together with Javier Garcia (NASA Goddard Space Flight...

In 2024, PLANCKS was organized in its 11th edition by the University of Dublin and the Institute of Physics. 49 teams from 25 countries qualified for the final round in national preliminary rounds. In this highly competitive environment, FAU student Titus Bornträger and his team consisting of Finnle...

On April 26, 2024, our graduates and doctoral candidates from the previous academic year will be bid farewell at a ceremony. In addition, the Ohm Awards of the Department of Physics for the promotion of young scientists for outstanding theses will be presented. This year's keynote speech "Auf Ent...

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 ne...

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...

NOMAD CAMELS is a new open-source software developed at the Chair of Applied Physics that generates future-oriented research data in line with the FAIR principles in a simple way during experiments. FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, which are key criteria for the subs...

"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...