Nano-Optics News

Congratulations! On September 2, 2024, Cornelia Holler successfully defended her doctoral thesis on „Investigating membrane diffusion and endocytosis at the subcellular level with a microfluidic paintbrush“.

The Center for NanoScience (CeNS) at the Ludwigs-Maximilian-Universität in Munich (LMU) has honored Cornelia Holler, PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, with the first prize of the Nano Innovation Award. The award was presented to the scientist from the Nano-Optics…

Congratulations! On June 26, 2024, Houman Mirzaalian Dastjerdi successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Integrating Machine Learning and Computer Vision into PiSCAT: An Open-Source Python Package for Interferometric Scattering Microscopy".

IFIMAC PhD students Beatriz Viña, Anna-Luisa Römling, Diego Fernández and Jose Antonio Moreno interviewed Vahid Sandoghdar. Diego also talked to Vahid about his research and his personal experiences during his career in basic research.

Watch interview here.

The 20th century witnessed the emergence of many paradigm-shifting technologies from the physics community, which have revolutionized medical diagnostics and patient care. However, fundamental medical research has been mostly guided by methods from areas such as cell biology, biochemistry, and…

Congratulations to Ashley Shin for receiving the 2024 Norma Stoddart Award for Exemplary Citizenship and Excellence at Graduate Research. Established in 2004, the award is open to all current and recently graduated research students and fellows in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.…