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We are thrilled to announce that Professor Dirk Guldi has been awarded the prestigious Masuhara Lectureship at the ACP Conference 2025, held in Kochi, India. This esteemed recognition highlights his significant contributions to the field of photochemistry. During the conference, Prof. Guldi deli...

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...

Dr. Sabrina Gensberger-Reigl and Dr. Hannah Zenker have been honored with the Renate Wittern-Sterzel Award by FAU for their pioneering in promoting equality and inclusion in research. At the Chair of Food Chemistry, the two scientists have established a maternity protection laboratory that enables ...

We are delighted to announce that Prof Dr. Dirk M. Guldi has been selected as the 2025 Edinburgh Instruments Lecturer in Photophysics and Photochemistry at Duke University. Established to honor scientists who have made transformative contributions to the fields of light–matter interaction, energy c...

Researchers working with particles and materials made from them have the opportunity to engage in intensive exchange at the annual Particle-Based Materials Conference PBM. This year, the conference was once again held in Erlangen and was organized by the Chair of Interfaces and Particle Technology ...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at FAU welcomes all Master's students for the winter term 2025/26 and invites all new first-year students of MSc. Chemistry and Molecular Science to the official introductory event on Friday, October 10, 2024. The welcome and information event will take plac...

Whether in self-healing materials, targeted recycling processes, or even the cancer therapies of tomorrow – induction heating, the warming of magnetic materials through alternating magnetic fields, opens up countless possibilities. Until now, however, it was not possible to precisely control which ...

In the future, it may be possible to produce bioactive molecules and pharmaceuticals without relying on expensive enzymes or toxic metals as external catalysts. Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have developed a procedure in which an in situ-formed organoautocatalys...

The team around Prof. Dr. Sjoerd Harder, Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry at FAU, has been funded with the highest European research grant. With a highly competitive ERC-Advanced Grant of 2,5 Million Euro, the scientific team will investigate how non-noble metals can carry out noble t...

In the new collaborative research center (CRC) 1719 “ChemPrint – the next generation of printed semiconductors: Engineering on the atomic level using molecular surface chemistry”, researchers at FAU are investigating how to improve the manufacturing processes and quality of semiconductors under spec...