It is rare for two prestigious rankings to be published in such quick succession. What both have in common is that they show how well the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is ranked internationally in terms of research. In the THE-Subject Ranking, which was published on 29 Octo...
Not one, but two researchers at FAU have been awarded a Synergy Grant, one of the most prestigious grants awarded by the European Research Council. Chemist Prof. Dr. Karl Mayrhofer has received funding for his work on electrocatalysis, and physicist Prof. Dr. Kristian Franze for investigating the me...
I am delighted to share my enriching internship experience at Evonik Industries, a global leader in specialty chemicals production, where I had the privilege of contributing to the cutting-edge work of the Process Simulation and CFD group (at Hanau, Germany) in the Process Technology & Engineeri...
The entire report on the 280th anniversary can be read on the FAU website. Only the excerpts directly related to MAP are reproduced here.
All MAP staff and students are delighted that three award winners have been selected from the MAP program. We would like to congratulate them all!
Awards and ...
As a contribution to my MAP Additional Qualifications, I was given the opportunity to do a 3-month research internship at KU Leuven starting in May 2023. I had the privilege of being a member in the research groups of Prof. Annabel Braem, who is Associate Professor for Biomaterials and Tissue Engine...
According to a recent study, more than 200 researchers at FAU belong to the top two percent of the most frequently cited academics worldwide. The list was published by a team of researchers from Stanford University after evaluating the Scopus database, the largest database of abstracts and citations...
The MAP team warmly welcomes 26 new MAP students from the 2023 starting class! We are proud that you have overcome many obstacles and are finally part of the MAP family by now! We wish you all a great time in the MAP program and hope that you will soon adjust to living in a new country.
In order ...
From 3rd to 7th September 2023, I had the great pleasure and honor of representing both the MAP program and the Institute of Biomaterials at the EUROMAT23 conference. EUROMAT23 is one of Europe's biggest and most prestigious materials science and technology congresses, where experts from industry an...
The 2023 Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to the discovery and the tuning of light emission of semiconductor nanoparticles, known as quantum dots.
These tiny particles emit light with unprecedented purity and can be applied in many different fields, including light emitting devices, such as d...
The Shanghai Ranking 2023 has been published and FAU has cause for celebration: Coming in at number 17, FAU retains its place among the top 20 universities in Germany. Internationally, FAU is among the top 10 percent of all universities included in the survey.
The ranking focuses on various indic...
