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Congratulations, Changjin!
Changjin Son obtained his doctoral degree on February 24, 2026 when he successfully defended his doctoral thesis about “Towards photon pair generation via spontaneous four-wave mixing in nonlinear metasurfaces”. Well done!
Physics from Erlangen in Regensburg: Flore Kunst receives the 2026 Bernhard Heß Prize
Dr. Flore Kunst is being awarded the Bernhard Heß Prize 2026 for her work in the field of “topological physics – in particular non-Hermitian and topological phenomena in open systems.” Kunst heads a Lise Meitner research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.
Congratulations, Jonas!
Jonas Landgraf obtained his doctoral degree on February 4, 2026 when he successfully defended his doctoral thesis about “Automated discovery of better quantum machines”. Well done!
January
Newly established Jochen Guck Award honors research at MPZPM
The newly established Jochen Guck Award was presented for the first time. It honors research, which applies Brillouin Microscopy in Biology. The first recipients are Konstantin Hein and Humberto Romero Limon, both PhD students at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM).
Congratulations, Ruchi!
Changjin Son obtained his doctoral degree on February 24, 2026 when she successfully defended his doctoral thesis about the accurate fabrication of polyacrylamide hydrogels using droplet microfluidics to produce microgels that mimic cellular physical properties for mechanobiology research. Well…
MPZPM research group leader receives Early Career Scientist Prize
Dr. Viola Introini has been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize in Biological Physics by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). She receives the prize for her novel physical approach to malaria research. Her lab at the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM)…
Our Physics – Our Research: UPhUF visits MPL
At the event “Our Physics – Our Research” (German: Unsere Physik – Unsere Forschung, UPhUF), the working groups of the Department of Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) provided information about their current research. The venue was the Max Planck Institute for the…
Congratulations, Conrad!
Changjin Son obtained his doctoral degree on February 24, 2026 when he successfully defended his doctoral thesis about “Phenomenological Perspectives in Biophysics”. Well done!
