Year: 2025

As part of its regular courses, the GeoZentrum Nordbayern in Erlangen conducts a two-week field exercise on Gotland (Sweden) every two years. This year, master's students in palaeontology once again spent two weeks on the island learning how to measure geological sections on various scales and using different techniques, as well as how to extract information about sedimentary environments from rocks and fossils. Please read more...

From September 28 to October 12, the annual ARTEMIS field trip to Northern Greece, funded by the EU as part of the ERASMUS+ program, took place, with students from Nancy, Thessaloniki, Athens, Budapest, Bratislava, and Erlangen participating this year. Please read more...

On 29 September 2025, the survey period for the SIGIS study on work and organisational culture started. The scientific staff from the Faculties of Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Medicine are cordially invited to participate in the study. The survey is being conducted as part of the SIGIS study on gender inequalities in organizational and working conditions at several universities in Germany.

The Working "Group Modelling of Environmental Systems" (Prof. Gabriele Chiogna) attended the 52th World Groundwater Congress 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. We warmly congratulate Dr. Xinyang Fan, who received together with M.Sc. Nane Weber (TU Dresden) this year the Best Poster Presentation Award from the IAH.

38 students were able to experience science and technology at this year's ‘Girls and Technology’ internship at the Faculty of Engineering. At experimental stations and in discussions with female scientists, the participants gained exciting insights into current research and a wide variety of professional fields. The GeoZentrum Nordbayern also took part in the diverse programme.

This year, the research group of Mineralogy was once again strongly represented at the International Conference on the Chemistry of Construction Minerals (ICCCM 2025) in Garching with numerous contributions. Of particular note was the recognition of one of our posters with the Best Poster Prize by the GDCh, Research group Chemistry of Construction Materials. Please read more...

The Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Applied Mineralogy (salary group W3) at the Department of Geography and Geosciences. This is a full-time and permanent position planned to be filled by the earliest possible starting date.

During 1st to 3rd of August GeoZentrum Nordbayern contributed to the deployment of seismic stations within the Eger Large Seismic Experiment (ELISE). Please read more...

This July, an international team of researchers, co-led by Professor Rachel Warnock, organised a “Taming the BEAST” workshop at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing, China. Please read more...

How can the carbon footprint of the cement industry be significantly reduced in the future? This question was at the focus of the Low Carbon Cement Science (LCCS) conference, which took place in Switzerland from 29 June to 4 July 2025. Please read more...