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.

New Data Analysis Platform Sandoghdar Division

Open source data analysis platform PiSCAT for iScat measurements now available

Newsletter 2021 News

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

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

Top 50 Nature Communications Russell Division

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

Tap-proof Quantum Communication News

BMBF to provide 165 million euros for the QuNet initiative

Emmy Noether Group for Jona Kayser

27.04.2021

Millions for cancer research: Jona Kayser, junior group leader in the Biological Optomechanics Division at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of...

How does a typical day in the life of a scientist look like? Girls'Day at MPL

26.04.2021

For Girls' Day 2021, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light welcomed twenty girls who wanted to know how a day in the life of a scientist...

Representative microscopic images of different cells obtained with RAPID

Fast and efficient diagnoses through artificial intelligence

08.04.2021

The mechanical properties of cells can reveal which diseases a patient is suffering from. Researchers at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin...

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Contact

Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck

Please contact:
Gee-Hye Yeo (PA)
Email: gee-hye.yeo@mpl.mpg.de
Phone: +49 9131 7133 501

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.