Research

The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most valuable German research award and is granted exclusively to top researchers who are world leaders in their field. The Alexander von Humboldt Professorships for Artificial Intelligence form an essential part of the German government's AI strategy....

Professor Kathryn Sikkink (Harvard University) received an honorary doctorate from FAU on June 6th for her outstanding research on human rights. To mark this occasion, a festive award ceremony took place with guests from the university and beyond. The Institute of Political Science, in association w...

Whether its smartphones, tablets or apps, it would be difficult to imagine our daily or working lives these days without digital devices and tools. To be successful in this digital world, we need digital skills. Teaching these skills is also a task for schools. This requires well-trained teachers wh...

This article by the American online magazine deals with why pessimism is not so bad. It quotes research results from Prof. Dr. Frieder Lang, head of the Institute for Psychogerontology, like the so-called "defensive pessimism" and the extent to which this can even be beneficial. Read the article on...

Health insurance is something we take for granted in Europe, but for many people all over the world, it is simply unaffordable. Pakistan is one of the countries that does not have a social health protection scheme. To change this, Prof. Dr. Andreas Landmann from the Institute of Economics at FAU is ...

From April 13 to 15, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), as a member of the European Teacher Education Network (ETEN), hosted about 200 international experts in teacher education at the Regensburger Straße campus in Nuremberg. ETEN acts as a cooperation platform for universities...

SLSAeu 2023: Models, Metaphors and Simulations. Epistemic Transformations in Literature, Science and the Arts When: May 18-21, 2023 Where: Orangerie and Senate Hall in the Kollegienhaus The conference focuses on modes of exchange between discourses and practices of knowledge production, repr...

We welcome Patricia Stuelke as a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow at the faculty! She is guest of the English and American Studies Department, and the Global Sentimentality Project and at work on a second book, tentatively titled "Crisis, Genre, Movement" that theorizes the cultural fronts of contemporary left social movements across the Americas. 

The Berlin underground stop "Onkel Tom’s Hütte" causes controversy. Its name is borrowed from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852 and therefore the term 'Uncle Tom' is  linked to a painful history marked by racism. A petition is now calling for the name of the sta...

In the ranking of the ‘Top 50 Start-ups’ 2021, mentalis has reached fourth place. Launched in 2018, the company offers digital follow-up care after (partial) inpatient treatment for mental illnesses and is a spin-off of the chair of Psychology I at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and The...