1.4 million euro for cutting-edge research

mikroskopeThree research projects involving research scientists from FAU are to receive a total of around €1.4 million in funding from the Bavarian Research Foundation. One such project to receive additional funding is “eGaIT – embedded Gait analysis using Intelligent Technology: computer-aided biometric gait analysis”. Research for this project is being conducted by researchers from the Department of Computer Science 5 and the University Hospital’s Department for Molecular Neurology. Further funding is to go to the project “Rapid Tooling – injection moulding applications” at the Department for Plastics Technology and also to the project “ZERPA – Non-destructive testing on heterogeneous parallel computer architectures” at the Department for Computer Science 3. more...

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