Monat: Juni 2016

This year Erlangen hosted the 17th International Comic-Salon – a unique combination of all possible events connected with art and comics: exhibitions, workshops, comic books fair and cosplay. Read more on the student blog meineFAU.

Dr. Huynh Van Luong (Vietnam) is involved in research related to the field of image and video coding and processing. As a Humboldt Fellow at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at FAU, he is developing a distributed sensing framework to deal with high-dimensional data for multi-view object recognition and tracking toward mobile augmented reality.

FAU researchers have discovered a mechanism that stops chronic inflammation.

Another FAU researcher has succeeded in securing funding from the European Union amid tough competition. Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Chair of Physical Chemistry II, has been awarded one of the sought-after ERC Advanced Grants worth 2.5 million euros.

A little girl from Syria has finally had a heart defect corrected thanks to support from Erlangen. A dedicated acquaintance was able to get Raghad and her father to Germany where the association 'Erlangen hilft' provided them with valuable support over a period of several months.