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An international team of researchers has shown for the first time that depression can be effectively prevented through online training.

The German government is investing approximately 40 million euros in IZNF, a new interdisciplinary centre for nanostructured films. Construction of the new centre, which will be located on the Southern Campus in Erlangen, is expected to be completed by the end of 2018.

Professor Dr. Peter Dabrock, Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) at FAU, has been elected chairperson of the German Ethics Council, the most important advisory body in the field of ethics in Germany.

FAU's natural scientists are among the most productive researchers in their disciplines in Germany and Europe according to the latest Nature Index Tables.

President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger has already got his: the FAU T-shirt 2016 showing the winning entry from FAU's first t-shirt design competition.

In collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, FAU researchers have developed a new type of technology that allows the facial gestures and lip movements of one person to be transferred onto the video image of another – in real time.

A new pilot project will investigate whether saving emergency medical data on electronic health insurance cards is practicable. Researchers at FAU will be involved in the academic side of the project.

Materials scientists at FAU have developed a process that allows self-cleaning properties to be applied to ceramic surfaces that also work for liquids such as oils and alcohol.

FAU has an excellent international reputation. This is reflected in the large number of renowned researchers who choose FAU as their host university as part of a scholarship or research award.

The Mäanderhöhle cave near Bamberg was previously regarded as an archaeological sensation. However, Julia Blumenröther, a former student at the Institute of Prehistory and Early History, has demonstrated in her Master's thesis that the markings inside the cave are not fertility symbols carved by humans.