Nano-Optics News

Congratulations to Marie Reischke for receiving the PicoQuant Student Award at this year’s 30th Anniversary Workshop on Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Ultra Sensitive Analysis in the Life Sciences (#WS30)! Marie was recognized for her outstanding presentation and awarded a prize of 500 EUR. 

Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny nanometer-sized molecules in the body. Despite decades of research, our understanding of the structure and function of such molecular machines within the cellular environment remains…

MPL researcher Dr. Ashley Shin has been invited to the 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting – one of the most prestigious events where Nobel Laureates and outstanding young researchers from around the world come together. The meeting offers young participants a unique opportunity to engage in…

Interactions between atoms and molecules are facilitated by electromagnetic fields. The bigger the distance between the partners involved, the weaker these mutual interactions are. In order for the particles to be able to form natural chemical bonds, the distance between them must usually be…

Congratulations! On July 16, 2025, Masoud Mirzaei successfully defended his doctoral thesis on “High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Single Molecules on a Crystal Surface”.

Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), and his team receive the first prize of the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize on Friday, June 20, 2025, for the development of the novel analysis method iNTA (interferometric nanoparticle tracking…