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Special Issue: Materials Science and Engineering at Friedrich‐Alexander University of Erlangen‐Nürnberg (FAU) Continue

This three-day intensive course introduces data science with MATLAB based on atom probe experimental data. For that, a newly in-house developed MATLAB toolbox will be used. As an outcome, the participants will be able to independently carry out in-depth analysis of a variety of different problem ... Continue

Over the next five years, the European Research Council (ERC) will provide an ERC Starting Grant of 1.76 million euros to support the outstanding research project of PD Dr. Benoit Merle, Chair of Materials Science & Engineering I (General Materials Properties). Less than ten percent of the submi... Continue

Ms Yakun He has won the SAOT Student Award 2020 in the topic “Optical Materials and Systems” for her work “Evidencing Excellent Thermal- and Photostability for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells with Inherently Built-In Microstructure” published in “Advanced Energy Materials”. The article prese... Continue

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held remotely on 15th July 2020, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head, Institute of Biomaterials, WW7) was elected unanimously to serve a third period as member of the FEMS Executive Committee representing the German Ma... Continue

The Summer School "Technologies for Biofabrication", organised within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 225) "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” has started on Monday July 20th, with an introduction by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The ... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, head of the Institute of Biomaterials (WW7), celebrates 10 years as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Materials Letters. The journal is one of the "classical" journals in the field of materials science and engineering, which was founded in 1982 and it has seen a continuous increa... Continue

The term of Prof. Dr. Peter Wellmann (professor on electronic materials at the Materials Department 6) as president of the European Materials Research Society EMRS (www.european-mrs.com) has been prolongated on May 15th, 2020 for another year. His 2nd mandate will start on September 1st, 2020 and la... Continue

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In summer semester '20 for the first time as a digital lecture series Continue