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A team of superlatives: EmpkinS PhD students once again competed against other groups from all over the world in several categories of the Student Design Competitions at the International Microwave Symposium in San Diego, USA, and won four times against very strong competition:- 1st place in Noncont...

in March 2023, Eva was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. Together with Dr. Jenny Krutzinna and Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Staksrud from the research group “Children, Youth and Media”, she investigated the question of what consequences and opportunitie...

Congratulations to this year's award winner, Dr. Lena Gmelch from the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at FAU. Since 2020, the Faculty of Philosophy and Theology has been awarding the teaching prize for innovative teaching concepts. The teaching prize honors two teaching concepts e...

Study info: Have you ever been interested in a scientific study of your sleeping patterns? Here you get the chance to get some insights! For the EmpkinS “Sleep Analysis in Parkinson’s Disease" Project, we are searching for participants in the control group. The study will take place in the sleep l...

Our young researcher Dat Thanh Nguyen had the great opportunity to do an internship at Meta.  He worked on a project called "Dynamic Level of Detail". This project aimed to develop a system that could dynamically adapt the resolution of a mesh based on the camera's position. This innovation held sig...

Vortragsankündigung: Fachgespräch "Solidarität in einer digitalen Welt" Intersektionale Dimensionen feministisch-theologischer Ethik Freitag, 30. Juni 2023, 13:30 Uhr bis 15:00 Uhr an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Sprache: Deutsch Herzliche Einladung zu den öffentliche...

The Center for AI-based Real-time Medical Diagnostics and Therapy (CARE-MED) will be established by 2028 – with a focus on chronic inflammatory, degenerative and oncological diseases. The idea of the multimodal sensory laboratory in CARE-MED is to use innovative methods and technologies as well...

On the 20th of April 2023,  16 EmpkinS young researchers spent an afternoon on the "Via Ferrata Norissteig" fixed-rope route in Hirschbach. Led by the more experienced climbers, the young researchers helped each other to complete the adventurous team-building activity in small groups. Participants t...

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun for receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant! With 1,5 Million Euros allocated to 5 research-years Prof. Dr. Braun and his team will research ethical questions in the realm of "digital twins", which are simulations of certain body-functions or organs w...

Prof. Dr. Schett (D01) has been awarded one of the highest honors: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important German research funding prize! Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the leading international scientists in the field of inflammation and immune medicine with groundbreaking find...