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The SAOT has been established at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in November 2006 within the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments for the Promotion of Science and Research at German Universities. The SAOT project was selecte...

On Wednesday, 16th May 2012 Prof. Gerhard Leuchs was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, the Bavarian State Minister of Science, Research and the Arts. Dr. Heubisch emphasized Prof. Leuchs' outstanding research contributions in optics as well as his efforts during the founda...

The paper "Noninvasive measurement of pressure field arising from arbitrarily-shaped ultrasound transducers" by Lizhuo Chen, Stefan J. Rupitsch and Reinhard Lerch from the Lehrstuhl für Sensorik received the Best Student Paper Award at the 16th VDI/ITG congress.

SAOT graduate Dr. Andreas Fieselmann from the "Pattern Recognition Lab" has been distinguished during the 93rd German X-ray congress in Hamburg. The award is based on his contributions in the field of C-arm based perfusion imaging.

The ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” decorated Dr. Andreas Bräuer with the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award for outstanding, future oriented, sustainable and published achievements. During the annual meeting of the ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” -March 2nd, 2012 i...

SAOT Professor Andreas P. Fröba has been elected one of only four Associate Editors of the internationally well recognized International Journal of Thermophysics which is the leading journal for the determination of thermophysical properties of matters in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states. Prof....

Recently a proposal for the establishment of new Research Training Group on HETEROGENEOUS IMAGE SYSTEMS has been accepted by the German Research Foundation (DFG). DFG provides funding of 4.5 Mio€ for the Research Training Group for 4.5 years starting on October 1st, 2012. The application has been co...

Marion Merklein, chair professor of Manufacturing Technology, has been elected editorial board member of the Journal of Materials Processing Technology, which is one of the most relevant international journals in manufacturing technology.

In recognition of his contributions to ultrasonic transducer technology and computer modeling of sensors and actuators Professor Reinhard Lerch has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective 1st January 2012.

The paper Tsung-Han Tsai, Benjamin Potsaid, Martin F. Kraus, Chao Zhou, Yuankai K. Tao, Joachim Hornegger, and James G. Fujimoto Piezoelectric-transducer-based miniature catheter for ultrahigh-speed endoscopic optical coherence tomography Biomedical Optics Express 2, 2438-2448 (2011) has a p...