International research project brings five European cities from the early modern period to the present day to life
How was the public space in European cities used in the years from 1450 to 1700? What happened in small streets and large squares, which buildings were important and why? How...
Funding by the federal and state governments for the next ten years
The FAU will receive a center for national high performance computing (NHR) at universities - this was announced by the Joint Science Conference (GWK) at its meeting on November 13, 2020. On January 1, 2021, the "Zentrum für nation...
Legal Tech and AI in Law
Dr. Axel Adrian is honorary professor at the chair for criminal law, criminal procedure law and philosophy of law. One of his scientific focal points is Legal Tech and the use of AI in law. In an interview, he explains the significance of these developments for everyday leg...
Call for Papers, Call for Participation
We are happy to announce our workshop “New tools for old problems” which will take place online via Zoom on 09.01.2021. Participation is free. We especially invite contributions from early career researchers.
The topic of the workshop reflects how recent d...
AI in medicine and the interaction of work and technology - on November 4, at the Dies academicus of FAU
Professor Sabine Pfeiffer, head of the Department of Sociology with a focus on Technology - Work - Society, is concerned with the transformation of work through digital transformation. She resea...
Digital technologies mean that more and more social and technical processes are being translated into data - i.e. "datafused". The analysis of this data enables new insights, new services and is the basis for new data economies.
For some years now, however, the buzzword "digital sovereignty" has be...
The digital transformation is increasingly being problematized as a challenge to the established political-geographical orders. Under the label of "digital sovereignty," Europe is also struggling to achieve stronger state regulation of the digital sphere. At FAU, an interdisciplinary group from fiel...
As one of the most innovative universities in Europe, FAU promotes the start-up scene in Nuremberg
FAU is one of the most innovative universities in Europe - no wonder that it is a partner of the "Zollhof - Tech Incubator" in Nuremberg, which was founded in mid-2016. The center supports founders in...
FAU team develops cost-efficient and high-resolution multispectral camera
Intelligent cameras are considered the next milestone in image and video signal processing. A research team at the Chair of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing at FAU has developed an intelligent camera that achiev...
What Greek vases reveal about the life of people in ancient times
How can one gain an insight into the foreign culture of ancient Greece today? One way to do so, the interpretation of paintings on ancient vases, is presented by Prof. Corinna Reinhardt from the Chair of Classical Archaeology in the ...
