On June 15-16, 2016 the students of the FAU will have a chance to participate in real life politics – Hochschulwahl. This article on the student blog meineFAU offers some interesting insights and facts.
Dr. Duo Xu focuses his research interests on turbulent flows and transition to turbulence in shear flows using state-of-the-art experimental and numerical research tools. Since August 2014, he has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics (FAU) studying the transition to turbulence in pulsation pipe flows in the group led by Prof. M. Avila (FAU) in collaboration with Prof. B. Hof (IST Austria).
For universities in Iraq, remaining a part of international research and staying up-to-date with developments in teaching despite sanctions, war and chaos is essential. FAU is helping them to ensure this is possible.
In order to study at FAU, refugees are required to learn German. The Association for Promoting Internationalisation at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg is supporting 24 refugees taking part in German language courses with a donation of 7200 euros.
One way of assessing how influential researchers are is according to how often their publications are cited. This is the basis of the annual CWTS Leiden ranking of top universities. FAU has achieved an excellent placement in the ranking again this year.
Dr. Liang Zhang got the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship to carry out his postdoctoral research at FAU under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück at the Chair of Physical Chemistry II. At FAU, his research is mainly about “surface science with porphyrins”.
FAU has performed excellently again in the Centre for Higher Education’s (CHE) university ranking, and is ranked among the best for chemistry and for electrical engineering and information engineering.
