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My name is Zarifa Huseynova, I am from Azerbaijan and I am a first year MAP student at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. I graduated from the French-Azerbaijani University, which is a joint degree programme of ASOIU (Azerbaijan State Oil) and the University of Strasbourg, with a distinction diploma. During my ...

Category: General, News

When I first came to Germany in 2017 for an internship at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) in Berlin, I was immediately fascinated with the world of research and materials science. That one experience propelled my interest so much that, while choosing a master's programme, ...

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The MAP Pretzel Talk is a series of irregular extra-curricular career and research-related events for MAP students. Accomplished MAP alumni Dr. Kasra Sardashti hosted such a talk while on a visit to Erlangen on Monday 5 December 2022. Dr. Sardashti, who proudly describes himself as an American, I...

Category: Events, News

On Wednesday 18 May 2022, I opened my email inbox to find a letter from Imperial College Business School. An application for a scholarship to attend the three-week summer school on Strategy and Business Consulting was successful! A sense of happiness filled me up. Attending this summer school was a ...

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MAP lecturer Prof. Dr. Kathrin Castiglione, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering and PD Dr. Philipp Spitzer from the Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy have received the Prize for Excellence in Teaching from the Bavarian Ministry of Science in recognition of their outstanding teaching. What...

Category: Awards & Rankings, General, News

The CHE Master’s ranking 2022 indicates that many Master’s students are very happy with their choice of FAU. The survey focused on engineering subjects and psychology. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Psychology did particularly well. For the ranking, 10,000 students were asked ...

Category: Awards & Rankings, News

I was particularly fascinated by the lecture on Biomaterials for Cancer Research during the third semester of the Elite Master’s Programme “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP). This episode of my life motivated me to work on a similar topic in my Master’s thesis. Taking the advantage of the poss...

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I am very happy about the opportunity to attend the one-week conference of German Physical Society (DPG) focusing on condensed matter physics held in Regensburg in September 2022. This is the first face-to-face conference I have attended in Germany. Here I had the chance to learn about various curre...

Category: News