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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 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.

FAU awarded 3.1 million euros in funding for high-resolution X-ray microscope.

Junior professor Dr. Aline Bozec has received the most important award for young researchers in Germany from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The biochemist will be presented with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize – which is worth 20,000 euros – in Bonn on 18 May 2016.

A team of FAU researchers have shown that the virus remains highly active despite the therapy. Their results of their research have recently been published in the journal EBioMedicine.

Together with Schaeffler, FAU’s Chair of Engineering Design has developed a unique rolling bearing spin test stand in order to investigate the behaviour of the bearings’ material and design more closely.

Additive manufacturing is probably the most significant technology for Germany as a production location. A centre of this technological revolution is located in Fürth: the Application Center VerTec.

The university library of FAU is lending a large oil painting as well as a drawing and prints of the artist Cäcilie Graf-Pfaff to four museums of modern art in Japan.