Year: 2022

Sustainability is more than climate and environmental protection. It runs through all areas of our lives - from health care to the business world to living together in society. This year's Dies academicus at FAU is also dedicated to sustainability: On Friday, 4 November, the university will be invit...

From October 24th to 28th (2022), Stana Vodrážková from the Czech Geological Survey in Prague was our guest to work together with Axel Munnecke on a project on "biogenic alteration of carbonate components".

A new study of a tiny Triassic fossil reptile that was first discovered over 100 years ago in Scotland has revealed what the ancestors of pterosaurs could have looked like.

Since mid-September, a new logo has been in use at the Chair of Mineralogy. Read more...

a dpa press release by FAU Applied Geol. sparked several press appearances in Süddeutsche Zeitung, FAZ and BR24.

The Applied Sedimentology Group at the GeoZentrum NordBayern (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg) and Geocosm LLC. are happy to host the 3rd School on the Diagenesis of Silicilastic Sediments in Erlangen. Motivated geoscientists from both University and Industry from all over the world will attend the course.  ...

We are thrilled to welcoming 12 international students in Erlangen. Our 3-week workshop aims to introduce graduate students to a range of analytical methods that are foundational to or at the cutting edge of paleobiological research. Topics, taught by rotating expert instructors, will include probab...

Finally! After a break of two and a half years, the Flügel Courses are finally taking place again! Participants are coming from all over the world - and we are happy to welcome them here in Erlangen at our institute.

We are very pleased to welcome Emma Dunne to the Palaeoenvironment! Since 15 August 2022, Emma has been supporting us as an assistant, primarily in the area of vertebrate palaeobiology. We warmly welcome our new team colleague and wish her a good start and lots of fun and success in her research. W...