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On May 6th-7th, 2020, the Interdisciplinary Erlangen Colloquium on Body Odours will take place. The colloquium will be held as an online conference under the overarching theme of "Chemical signatures: from basic insights to applications". The program of the online-colloquium is now available: ...

Since March 2020, Prof. Dr. Petra Imhof has been appointed to the W2 Professorship of Computational Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy. Prof. Imhof has also taken over the management of the Computer Chemie Centrum (CCC) in place of Prof. Clark. Petra Imhof studied chemistry at ...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy welcomes Prof. Dr. Henry Dube, who accepted the call to the Chair of Organic Chemistry I at the start of the summer semester in April 2020. The chair had been vacant since Prof. Dr. Tykwinski's return to Canada and was last represented by Prof. Dr. Evgeny Kat...

Due to the Corona Pandemic, the application deadline for FAU's mentoring programme ARIADNEdoc/postdoc+ has been extended until May 15th, 2020. The 18-months programme is designed for female doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and Habilitandinnen of the Faculty of Engineering and the Fac...

Catalysis is world-wide a multi-billion-dollar research field. FAU researchers have now published the very first book on catalysis with cheap, non-toxic, s-block metals. Metals like magnesium or calcium can in some cases replace toxic precious metals like palladium or platin. The book launched by Wi...

From April 2020, the W2 Professorship for Inorganic Chemistry is newly occupied with Prof. Dr. Karl Mandel. Prof. Dr. Mandel succeeds Prof. Dr. Julien Bachmann who received the Chair for Thin Film Chemistry of the Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials (EAM) in 2019. The professo...

Plastic recyclates produced from waste packaging have to meet high sensory requirements for them to be used for new products. Plastic recyclates often have off-odours, some of which have yet to be identified. The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV has analysed the sens...

The prospects of additive manufacturing (3D printing) as a versatile tool for prompt and inexpensive prototyping are extremely promising. This family of methods are set to make fabrication processes faster, more efficient in terms of the raw materials and energy required, and more flexible. However,...

The Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy wishes all students and employees happy holidays and a successful start to the New Year. From December 23, 2019 up to and including January 6, 2020, there will be no lectures and the FAU administration will be closed. The Study Service Center Chemistry and Mo...

As of November 2019, Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner is assuming the position of director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) in Freising. For two years, she has held the professorship for the Chair of Aroma and Smell Research.   Sensory Science ... Central to ...