Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

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Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light covers a wide range of topics, including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibres, optomechanics, quantum technologies, biophysics, and—in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin – links between physics and medicine. MPL was founded in 2009 and is one of the over 80 institutes that make up the Max Planck Society, whose mission is to conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

High-speed cell sorter Guck Division

Scientists have developed a high-speed method for identifying and sorting cells that does not require external cell labeling

Newsletter 2020 News

Read more about our current research in this year's newsletter

Top 50 Nature Communications Russell Division

Article of MPL scientists in the Top 50 Nature Communications physics articles published in 2019

Interferometric Scattering microscopy Sandoghdar Division and MPZPM

Interferometric scattering microscopy reveals microsecond nanoscopic protein motion on a live cell membrane

Tap-proof Quantum Communication News

BMBF to provide 165 million euros for the QuNet initiative

70th birthday symposium for Gerd Leuchs has been re-scheduled to June 2021

03.06.2020

The symposium "Light, Lasers and Quanta", scheduled to celebrate our director emeritus Gerd Leuchs' 70th birthday, had to be re-scheduled as a result...

Construction work for the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin starts

26.05.2020

The construction work for the new Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) will start: The construction site at the Schwabachanlage in...

Max Planck researchers develop the "ultimate cell sorter"

25.05.2020

By combining imaging of deformed cells and artificial intelligence, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the...

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Contact

Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt

Please contact:
Gesine Murphy (PA)
Email: marquardt-office@mpl.mpg.de
Phone: +49 9131 7133 401

Head of Infrastructure
Dr. Dorothe Burggraf

Please contact:
Lisa Spann (PA)
Email: lisa.spann@mpl.mpg.de
Phone: +49 9131 7133 801

Current situation regarding COVID-19

Unfortunately, all face-to-face lectures and events at our institute are cancelled until further notice due to COVID-19. Currently we can only offer online seminars.