Donators, endowed chairs and alumni associations
Alumni associations and donators at the Faculty of Sciences
- Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft e.V.
The Fränkische Geographische Gesellschaft (FGG) pursues the goal of communicating geographical knowledge and the research of university geography to the interested public. The society organizes a variety of public lectures throughout the year and offers its members access to the library and map collection of the Institute of Geography, whose alumni work it coordinates.
Supporting: Geography - Jungchemikerforum Erlangen-Nürnberg
The Young Chemists‘ Forum at the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg promotes young members of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e. V., represents their interests and acts as an intermediary between school, university and industry. It promotes the active participation of students and doctoral candidates in scientific conferences, organizes congresses and lectures, and proposes other activities by the members themselves.
Supporting: Chemistry - Alumni des Fachbereichs Physik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V.
Cultivation and promotion of relationships and cooperation between Faculty, teaching staff, graduates and students of the Department of Physics and with the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, its institutions, alumni associations, partner universities and with non–university research institutions with a physics orientation.
Supporting: Physics - Förderverein Zoologisches Museum Erlangen e.V.
Preservation of zoological specimens, promotion of exhibitions, public relations, reestablishment of a zoological museum
Supporting: Zoology - Freundeskreis des Botanischen Gartens Erlangen e.V.
Ideational and financial support of education in the field of botany at the Botanical Garden of the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg
Supporting: Botany - Verein zur Erforschung der Flora des Regnitzgebietes e.V.
Current status of the flora in the Erlangen–Nuremberg area compared to the survey by August Schwarz and numerous collaborators around 1900.
Supporting: Botany - Verein zur Förderung der Mathematik in Erlangen e. V. (VFME)
Intensification of the contact between mathematics at the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg and the public in an organized way
Supporting: Mathematics - Zerweck Fund
Promotion of chemistry at Erlangen, awarding of Zerweck prizes for final theses and doctoral dissertations.
Supporting: Chemistry
Endowed chairs and professorships
- Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Chair of Food Chemistry (Prof. Dr. Monika Pischetsrieder)
Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Foundation - Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Professorship for Food Safety and Quality (Prof. Dr. Simon Hammann)
Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt Foundation - Max Schaldach Professorship of Biomedical Technology (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hensel)
Biotronik SE & Co.KG, formerly Biotronik GmbH & Co., Berlin
Further funded chairs and professorships
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Chair of Mathematics (Prof. Dr. Friedrich Knop)
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung - Chair of Aroma and Smell Research (Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner)
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Chair of Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics (Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua)
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship - Professorship for X–ray Spectroscopy (Prof. Dr. Marcus Bär)
Helmholtz Institute Erlangen–Nürnberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN), Helmholtz–Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB)