We introduce seven recently appointed professors to the University 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 University of Augsburg shows how such models could be improved.

Physicists at the University of Augsburg together with collaborators from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Rutgers University, 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 University of Augsburg. Prof. Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, the president of the University 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 University 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.