Awards & Rankings

MAP Focal Subject Head Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. The award was conferred at the ceremony of the Grand Opening of the new building of the Baltic Biomaterials Center of Excellence...

It has already become a tradition that the third semester MAP students choose their best lecturer and announce them in a small speech after the annual MAP Poster Session. This year, the students chose Prof. Robin Klupp Taylor and Prof. Marco Haumann as their best lecturers. Below you can read the sp...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Chair of Materials Science (Biomaterials) at FAU, MAP Focal Subject Head for “Biomaterials and Bioprocessing”, has been selected as the winner of the George Winter Award 2024 of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB). The George Winter Award was established by the ESB ...

The German Society for Materials Science (DGM) is a leading organization in the field of materials science and engineering, fostering research, innovation, and collaboration. Each year, the DGM Nachwuchspreis (Young Talent Award) recognizes outstanding achievements by early-career scientists in adva...

My name is Laura Adilova. I have just started my Master’s degree “Advanced Materials and Processes” (MAP) at FAU. My choice of the university was based on FAU’s strong reputation in Engineering and Materials Science, along with its emphasis on interdisciplinary research. The MAP program combines eve...

MAP lecturer Prof. Dr. Matthias Thommes (TVT) is again among the TOP 50 most cited scientists worldwide in 2023, according to the new Stanford Ranking. The Stanford Ranking is the result of a regular evaluation of Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed litera...

We are proud to announce that our MAP Chairs Prof. Nicolas Vogel and Prof. Peter Felfer were awarded as best lecture with their course "Basics in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology 1 - Mechanical and Optical Properties"!  This recognition was achieved through the latest evaluation of all courses in th...

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) belongs to the top 15 percent of universities worldwide according to the latest QS World University Ranking. Compared to the previous year, FAU has moved up five places and is now ranked at place 224 of 1503. Excellent ranking for citations F...

FAU supports its top students as part of the Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) program. Each semester, scholarships of 3,600 euros for one year are awarded to the most gifted students. The unique feature of this scholarship is that half of the money comes from companies, donors, friends of...