Month: July 2021

EAM Starting Grant 2021/2022

Funding of new research projects – three EAM Starting Grants awarded As in 2020, the EAM awarded the EAM Starting Grant to excellent young FAU researchers. The EAM starting grant should give the recipients the chance to pursue their own research projects and thus gaining a boost for a successful ac...

29. July 2021

Inauguration of new main headquarters of Helmholtz Institute in Erlangen

Sustainable and inexpensive ways to convert and store energy Almost exactly four years lie between the ground-breaking ceremony and the official inauguration: the new research building of the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) is the latest address for cutting-edge ...

15. July 2021

Swimming at the mesoscale

FAU physicists discover simple propulsion mechanism for bodies in dense fluids. A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Liège and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy have developed a microswimmer that appears t...

7. July 2021