Studium

On Monday, July 13, the second to last performance of "Let them eat money" will take place in the Life-Stream from the Margrave Theatre. It deals with the question "Who is to blame?" for the climate catastrophe. After each stream of the digital production, experts discuss the themes of the play liv...

Many people think of paleontology as field research, digging for fossils and Jurassic Park. A large part of the research is computer-aided. Dr. Rachel Warnock is a paleontologist who mainly conducts research on computers. This semester she is a visiting professor at the Chair of Paleo-Environment a...

Das diesjährige Sommersemester wird größtenteils online stattfinden, mit Ausnahme einiger weniger Seminare und Exkursionen, die verschoben werden. Alle Informationen finden Sie auf StudOn oder UnivIS. Die Dozenten sind dabei, ihre Vorlesungen nach Möglichkeit in verschiedene Online-Formate umzuw...

Aufgrund der aktuellen Situation gibt es einige Änderungen im Tagesablauf der Universität.Aktuelle Informationen und Fragen zum Studium finden Sie hier. Due to the current situation there are a few changes in the daily procedure of the university. Updates, information and questions related t...

In the coming summer semester we will host Dr. Rachel Warnock as a guest professor. Rachel is a an expert in phylodynamic modeling and will contribute to the research and teaching at the GeoZentrum for one semester. She is currently in the Computational Evolution group at ETH Zürich. In Erlangen, ...

Bis zum 15. Januar 2020 können sich Masterstudierende der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät und der Technischen Fakultät für die nächste Runde des FAU-Mentoringprogramms ARIADNETechNat master bewerben. Das Mentoring beginnt im April 2020 und dauert 9 Monate. Das Programm richtet sich an Masterstudie...

How huge he really was is uncertain. The only thing that is certain is that it is the largest bony fish of all time: we are talking about the Leedsichthys problematicus, which lived about 160 million years ago. But how can such fossils, of which only a few fragments have survived, even be analysed?...

The Open Access journal PeerJ has granted the Award for Open Data Analysis and Publication in Palaeontology to our Masters student in Palaeobiology, Fiona Pye, for her talk "ImageJ and 3D Slicer: Open Source 2/3D Morphometric Software" co-authored by Nussaïbah Raja Shoob, Bryan Shirley, ÁdámT. Kocsis, Niklas Hohmann, Duncan Murdock & Emilia Jarochowska.