Similar to a digital route planner, specific programmes support doctors in their everyday clinical work by selecting diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The MIDAS study, led by Augsburg University Medicine, examined the effectiveness of such clinical decision-making aids for medical imaging in a multicentre, randomised study.

Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. To improve the remediation process, researchers at the University of Augsburg are trialling various cleaning methods. Their work is now being financially supported by the Bavarian Research Foundation.

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. Mathematicians from the Universities of Augsburg and Adelaide have recently proposed an explanation for this puzzling phenomenon.

The University of Augsburg belongs to the top 10 percent of places to study business and economics in Germany. According to the current WirtschaftsWoche ranking, the university is ranked 18^th among German universities and 24^th among universities in the D-A-CH region.

With the new BRaVE research network, the University of Augsburg is aiming to research vulnerabilities arising from the effects of climate change and develop solutions for adaptation. The network was officially launched on the 23rd of January 2025 and involves twelve interdisciplinary sub-projects.

The Extended Executive Board of the University has adopted a new sustainability strategy. The concept's central areas of action - governance, research, education and campus operations - are intended to promote sustainable action at all levels. The strategy is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and defines higher objectives.