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Excellent ideas for a strong industry – VAA Foundation honors a successful young researcher from FAU in the field of chemistry 2025: At the VAA Annual Conference on November 7, 2025, in Essen, Dr. Jakob Reichstein (at the chair of Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel, FAU), Dr. Maximilian Baur, Dr. Ieva A. Cec...

The STAEDTLER FOUNDATION promotes cutting-edge research and honors doctoral students at FAU at its 2025 annual meeting For the 27th consecutive year, the STAEDTLER Foundation honored doctoral students from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) at its 2025 annual meeting. This y...

Great news come in pairs: Jakob won the VAA Foundation Excellence Award! The VAA awards excellent ideas in context of PhD theses that have the potential to become industrially relevant. Big congrats, Jakob, very well deserved!

Romain won the Materials Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry) poster prize on synthesis methods at the 12th International Conference on Fine Particle Magnetism (ICFPM 2025) in Bariloche, Argentina, where he presented two posters on the correlation of the structural and magnetic morphology of nanop...

Andreas "Junior" Wolf successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Multiscale interactions of magnetic supraparticles upon readout with magnetic particle spectroscopy”. Congratulations, Junior!

Our Chair had a lot of fun being part of the program of the Long Night of Science and we were delighted to see that we could infect the broader public with our fascination for magnetic nanoparticles.

Many congratulations to Jakob for having received the STAEDTLER PhD Award! Well deserved! Read more here.

It is a great honor and, at the same time, a responsible task: Karl is now a liaison lecturer at FAU for scholarship holders of the German National Academic Foundation, the scholarship organization for highly gifted students.

It was a great pleasure to once again host the Particle-Based Materials Conference (PBM) here in Erlangen. Together with our colleagues Prof. Nicolas Vogel and Prof. Michael Engel, we organized this year’s meeting under the motto “Particle Design,” fitting perfectly with our ongoing CRC 1411 “Desig...

Great to have had our colleagues from Japan, Prof. Takashi Ogi, Prof. Satoshi Watanabe, Eka Septiani and Syakirah Nabilah, at our labs for a visit and to discuss future collaborations!