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Ever since pandemic from 2020, it has been particularly difficult for early career researchers, particularly PhD students to effectively attend conferences and involving in academic exchanges, which has gradually developed into a new culture of online events. Despite these difficulties, IMN members ...

A new Tenure Track Professorhip Computational Materials Microscopy (W2 / Associate Professor) is available at the Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy that is embedded at the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research. The research focus of this professorship should be on computationa...

Structure-property relationships are key for an in-depth understanding and development of modern materials utilized to solve grand challenges in today's society like sustainable energy conversion and catalysis. The Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) and the Institute of Micro- a...

Dr.-Ing. Peter Schweizer, who completed his PhD at IMN with distinction in 2019, has recently received a prestigious STAEDLER award together with 10 other candidates from FAU. Since 1999, the STAEDTLER Foundation has honored young scientists from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnb...

What began as a sport to compensate for the often long day in the lab has become a passion: our colleague Lilian Vogl has accepted the challenge of the Germany Tour stage from Ebensfeld to Erlangen. Together with a group of enthusiastic racing cyclists, she arrived at the finish after 87 km at the r...

The Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts (StMWK) annually awards five prizes for outstanding university degrees or doctorates to engineering students at Bavarian universities. The prizes are endowed with 2,000 euros each. The award honors the impressive achievements of female students in...

After the last official working day in the university, Petra Rosner, our friend, colleague and technician, is entering her retirement life. Thank you for your dedication to work in FAU, materials science, WW7 and WW9, in particular your pursuit of excellence in TEM sample preparation for the past 40...

Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri from the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (IMN, Prof. Erdmann Spiecker) and the Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) was awarded the “Best Oral Presentation Award” at the ”International Microscopy Congress (IMC19)” which took place in ...

A total number of 19 members of our institute participated the biannual microscopy conference (MC2017, also know as the Dreiländertagung, aka, three countries conference), which took place in Lausanne, Switzerland during 21-25. Aug. 2017. We were (unofficially) estimated to be the biggest group of r...

The annual football tournament of the Materials Science Department took place in 31. July. This year, our institute contributed in two teams: the regular boys team representing the institute and the girls team. Both played great games.      Photos by M. Wu