Prof. Harald Kunstmann, a hydrologist, from the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg belongs to a group of three German candidates nominated by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) for the final global round of the Frontiers Planet Prize 2026. The prize honours academic breakthroughs that contribute to the stabilisation of the planet’s ecosystem.

An international research group has published new recommendations in the renowned journal Nature Neuroscience for how biological sex differences (sex) and social gender aspects (gender) can be systematically integrated into research. The guidelines show why many studies up to now have overlooked important differences, which has consequences for diagnosis, therapy, and prevention.

The ceremonial opening of the Environmental Health Sciences Institute (EHSI) on the 28th of November 2025 marked an important milestone for the Faculty of 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】icine. The institute, which is unique in Germany, strengthens future-orientated research in the Environmental Health Sciences.?

The legalisation of cannabis could be responsible for more cases of psychosis and hospital admissions.?This is suggested by a pilot study conducted at the Chair and Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg, led by Prof. Alkomiet Hasan.?The study was published in the German medical journal ?rzteblatt.

Dr Mohammed Aldeep has been awarded this year’s DAAD Prize for Outstanding Achievements of International Students at German Universities. Aldeep, a recent legal doctoral graduate of the postgraduate programme for international legal experts at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg, was honoured on the 30th of October.

We introduce seven recently appointed professors to the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg for the beginning of the new semester.

Multiple cropping, the simultaneous cultivation of several crop species in space or time, is a widespread global agricultural practice. However, it is not adequately included in existing land use models. A study conducted at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg shows how such models could be improved.

Physicists at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg together with collaborators from the Budapest 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Technology and Economics and Rutgers 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】, USA, have successfully switched an antiferromagnetic state in an insulator by voltage pulses, within just a few tens of billionths of a second. Their findings were recently published in Physical Review Letters.?

The lecture period for the winter semester 2025/26 begins on the 13th of October at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg. Prof. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, the president of the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg, welcomes all new and returning students to the new semester. Just under 3,000 first-semester students (2,855 as of 13.10.25) will start their studies this autumn.

Dr. Jauwairia Nasir from the chair of human-centered AI got selected as one of the “Rising Woman Stars in Social Robotics” and was invited to give a spotlight talk at the 17th edition of International Conference of Social Robotics + AI 2025 in Naples, Italy.

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Prof. Dominik Wortig, an outstanding tenor, dedicated singing teacher and passionate director of the Leopold Mozart College of Music at the 新万博体育下载_万博体育app【投注官网】 of Augsburg. His sudden and untimely death leaves a painful void – not only in the musical and academic world, but above all in the hearts of all those who knew and appreciated him personally.

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