Month: September 2024

Glückwunsch an FAU EAM Unit FPS! Zentrum der FAU wird Core Facility – knapp eine Million Euro Förderung durch die DFG Drehscheibe für Partikelforschung Das Erlangen Center for Functional Particle Systems (FPS) wird zur Core Facility ausgebaut. Künftig können auch Forschende anderer wissenschaftli...

Welcome to the newest FAU EAM member Prof. Dr. Simon Thiele Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele studied physics at the University of Freiburg. In 2009 he started a PhD on the tomographic reconstruction of catalyst layers for proton exchange membrane fuel cells at the Institute of Microsystems Technology of...

Welcome to the newest FAU EAM member Prof. Dr. Luca Ghiringhelli Since October 2023, Luca M. Ghiringhelli is professor for “Data-based Materials Modelling” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He holds an M.Sc. in nuclear engineering from the Politecnico (Technical University) of M...

He optimizes imaging and analysis methods in electron microscopy in order to find out more about the structure of materials at the atomic scale: FAU EAM member and EAM Professor Philipp Pelz has been awarded the coveted Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his work on improvin...

September brought some changes within FAU EAM: We welcome Bastian Etzold (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering) and Jörg Libuda (Chemistry and Pharmacy, Faculty of Sciences) as two new Spokespersons of FAU EAM. Additionally, Lukas Pflug (Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences) will...

Most of the colors we encounter in daily life are produced by pigments, i.e., produce by the absorption of specific wavelengths of light. However, there are other forms of coloration, and one of them prevails in nature: structural color. This type of coloration is responsible for the vivid hues seen...