How can robots be integrated into workplaces to promote worker mental well-being and efficiency? The MindBot project is researching how a user-centered approach using collaborative robots can do just this.
It‘s a change that often goes unnoticed: while tropical agricultural regions are delivering ever higher yields, soils may be changing at a faster pace than we think — and not for the better. From March 2026, a new Emmy Noether Research Group at the University of Augsburg, led by soil scientist Dr. Pedro Batista, will focus on this barely visible but globally significant process.
Antiferromagnets are considered “invisible magnets": unlike familiar everyday magnets, they do not produce a measurable external magnetic field. For a long time, this made them difficult to control. In condensed-matter physics and materials research, however, they have recently gained strong momentum—because they could not only significantly accelerate data processing, but also reduce energy demand. Given growing data volumes and the electricity consumption of digital infrastructure, this could be an important step toward more environmentally friendly electronics and telecommunications.
Scientists at the University of Augsburg have discovered a particularly active subgroup of blood platelets that cause heart attacks in people with coronary heart disease despite drug therapy. This discovery may open up new prospects for customized therapies. The research results are published in the renowned European Heart Journal and were presented on August 31 at Europe's largest cardiology congress.
In a comprehensive study, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg have provided reliable evidence for a link between chronic inflammatory diseases and the development of tumours in the digestive tract. The results were recently published in eClinicalMedicine, which is part of the Lancet Group.
Obesity increases the risk of numerous secondary diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and mental illness. Prof. Dr. Kerstin Stemmer, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Augsburg, explains the role of genetics in weight loss and the effect of GLP-1 weight loss medication . She is researching the extent to which fat cells can communicate directly with the pancreas in order to stimulate insulin production.
So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release enormous amount of energy that can damage technical systems under certain circumstances. They only exist below a precisely defined cut-off frequency; above this they disappear abruptly. Strangely enough, however, there are isolated high frequencies at which they can also be detected. Mathematicians from the Universities of Augsburg and Adelaide have recently proposed an explanation for this puzzling phenomenon. Together with researchers from the University of Exeter, they have now been able to prove experimentally that their theory is indeed correct. The study has just been published in the journal Nature communications physics.
The Indian subcontinent is likely to experience an increasing number of extreme weather events in future. The fertile and densely populated plain around the Indus and Ganges rivers is therefore likely to become a climate change hotspot, which could have severe consequences for several hun-dred million people. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by re-searchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Augsburg, which has been published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.
Researchers at the University of Augsburg and the University of Vienna have discovered co-existing magnetic skyrmions and antiskyrmions of arbitrary topological charge at room temperature in magnetic Co/Ni multilayer thin films. Their findings have been published in the renowned journal Nature Physics and open up the possibility for a new paradigm in skyrmionics research. The discovery of novel spin objects with arbitrary topological charge promises to contribute to advances in fundamental and applied research, particularly through their application in information storage devices.
Prof. Dr Elisabeth Naurath, a protestant religious education teacher and project leader of a research fellowship at the Jakob-Fugger-Zentrum of the University of Augsburg, has been awarded an Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership. Together with international partners, it aims to develop models for integrating learnings from interreligious studies and environmental ethics into the education of religious education teachers from various religions.
