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Jochen Guck awarded Leopoldina's Greve Prize
Three of the world's leading scientists in the field of cancer physics are to receive the 2024 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their outstanding research in the fields of natural sciences, medicine and engineering. Among them is Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, Director…
Markéta Kubánková honored with “For Women in Science” award
Markéta Kubánková from the Guck Division at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light / Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin is one of four outstanding young female scientists to be honored with this year's “For Women in Science” award.
Understanding the physics of cancer, preventing metastases: Jochen Guck receives the Leopoldina Greve Prize
In honour of his groundbreaking insights into the movement of tumour cells, Professor Dr Jochen Guck from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen has received the 2024 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina together with Professor Dr Josef Käs…
Physicist Markéta Icha Kubánková awarded Hermann Neuhaus Prize
The Max Planck Society (MPS) has awarded the Hermann Neuhaus Prize to Markéta Icha Kubánková, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM). The prize, worth 25,000 euros, recognizes excellent postdocs…
"What is a physicist doing in biology and medicine?" – Jochen Guck gives the opening speech at the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
On June 27th and 28th, the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will take place. Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), has been invited to give the keynote lecture at the opening ceremony, which will also be broadcast live.
AutoRAPID project enters the home stretch: Successful trial installation of the integrated structure at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.
The fully automated measurement of the biophysical properties of hundreds of cell samples in just a few days is the goal of the cooperation project "AutoRAPID," involving scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology…
