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Dr. Wanjura was honored with the Gustav Hertz Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for young researchers from the German Physical Society (DPG) in 2026. The DPG is honoring the group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) for her contributions to two highly relevant…

Dr Clara Wanjura has been selected for the Minerva Fast Track Programme of the Max Planck Society (MPG) and has founded her own research group ‘Topology and Neuromorphic Computing’ at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL). The theoretical physicist is exploring research questions…

Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have published their new method in Nature Physics, demonstrating a method much…

An international team of researchers, with the participation of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and in collaboration with partners from Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, have realized a new type of metamaterial through which sound waves flow in an unprecedented fashion. It…

The German Physical Society awarded Dr. Clara Wanjura with the SAMOP Dissertation Prize 2024. The scientist received the prize for her doctoral thesis, which she wrote at the University of Cambridge under Prof. Andreas Nunnenkamp. Wanjura is currently conducting research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in…

The “Frontiers of Neuromorphic Computing” workshop attracted experts from all over the world to Erlangen in September.