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For all female master students considering a PhD, FAUmentoring ARIADNEtechnat aims at helping them achieve this goal. Sagni joined the 24/25 group and for her, it works perfectly well: “The ARIADNEtechnat program has helped me secure a successful PhD. My mentor offered systematic advice through...

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this question in their research. Exactly 100 years ago, Werner Heisenberg, Max...

A quantum computer the size of a smartphone – researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are investigating how this could become reality. Physicist Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstić and his team of researchers are focusing on developing quantum bits (Qubits) that work on the basi...

In order to reach their target, for instance a tumor, immune cells have to leave the bloodstream or lymphatic vessels and migrate through connective tissue. Until now, scientists presumed that immune cells migrated through tissue by constantly changing their shape and therefore squeezing through the...

The seeds in the teaching collection at the Botanical Garden in Erlangen have a very special aesthetic. Photographer Danièle Dugré shows them in an unexpected light. Founded in 1851, the “Museum Botanicum Erlangense” has an eventful history. Time and again, the plants, seeds and fruit it contains...