Awards

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun for receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant!

With 1,5 Million Euros allocated to 5 research-years Prof. Dr. Braun and his team will research ethical questions in the realm of "digital twins", which are simulations of certain body-functions or organs w...

Prof. Dr. Schett (D01) has been awarded one of the highest honors: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important German research funding prize!

Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the leading international scientists in the field of inflammation and immune medicine with groundbreaking find...

We cordially congratulate Alexander German (sub-project B04) for being named the FAU Innovator 2022!

In the category of student-innovators, Alexander satisfied the jury with his principle of “Voxelomics”. Voxel are spatial imaging, which help in visualizing physical tissue properties in radiologi...

We are proud to announce that our P.I. of subproject C02, Dr.Ing. Jörg Miehling, becomes funding member of the Emerging Talents Initiative. He will be supported by the ETI in the twelve-month-period January 2023 - January 2024.

For more information about the ETI please visit: https://ww...

We are happy to announce that two of our EmpkinS-PIs, Prof. Dr. med. Georg Schett (B02) and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober (D01) were recognized as members of the „Highly Cited Researchers List“! This list contains 6,938 of the most influential scientists from around the globe. 396 scientists from Ge...

We cordially congratulate Martin Vossiek for his appointment as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems (T-RS)!

The IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, were recently launched by a founding team, in which Martin Vossiek also participated.

The IEEE T-RS focuses on ad...

We cordially congratulate Tabea Ott from sub-project E for winning the Young Scholar’s Paper Award of Societas Ethica for her outstanding presentation on “Patients in Health Care as Data Assemblages – a Threat to Human Integrity?” in Zurich, Switzerland. ?

She received the award on the 27th of Au...

Congratulations, Markus Heyder, for this great success at the Machine Learning in Engineering Initiative Summer School
During the first summer school of the Hamburg Initiative “Machine Learning in Engineering” our PhD student Markus Heyder was extremely successful in presenting his EmpkinS PhD topi...

Our PhD students Hui Lu from the Institute of High-Frequency Technology at TUHH and Julia Yip from the Department of Palliative Care at the Anesthesiology Clinic of the University Hospital Erlangen won the Best Poster Award of the Physionet Challenge 2022

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. Weigel gets awarded with the Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. He is considered to be one of the leading researchers worldwide in the field of technical electronics and was honored for his engagement and merits.

The second Satus Seminar took place on 21st of July, 2022. It consisted of
poster presentations by every doctoral candidate. At the end they received feedback
on their presentations and the "Best Poster Award" was awarded.
This time Vanessa Wirth got the most votes and won the first place. The ru...

On 3rd and 4th of February, 2022 the first iRTG two-day retreat took place
With talks, the young researchers presented the current status of their doctoral project. Everyone received feedback from their fellows on their presentations. At the end of the retreat, the young researchers voted for the b...

Four FAU scientists are among the most cited researchers in their field. This emerges from the “Highly Cited Researcher List 2021” that has now been published. The ranking lists 2085 of the most influential researchers worldwide - 328 scientists from Germany are represented. The company Clarivate An...

Julia Beatriz Yip and Misha Sadeghi received the President's Welcome Award co-financed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation.
Congratulations! A warm welcome at the FAU, Germany's #1innovator.