The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Physics of Light has successfully launched an event for PhD students at the Erlanger MPI.

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Physics of Light, established at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), announces this year’s call for student positions.

Excellent candidates interested in all aspects of the science of light (topics include biophotonics,…

Our 12th IMPRS Annual Meeting took place from October 6^th to 8^th, 2021. It was organized at MPL in a hybrid format.

The event was open to all MPL colleagues online whereas the IMPRS students were able to meet in person in our Leuchs-Russell-Auditorium. The accompanying technical challenges were met…

At long last … we (meaning the IMPRS students and coordinators) were able to have a nice little gathering (outside of course), enjoying cake & coffee. Most of us did see each other for the very first time “in real life” after all …

The podcast of the German magazine "Welt der Physik" (World of Physics) interviewed the Director of our Theory Division, Florian Marquardt, for an episode about Artificial Intelligence. He explains how researchers are using the human brain as a model to develop artificial intelligence with the help…

The British Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded a research team for their work on the protective sugar coat of cells, which included the scientist from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. For the first time, it is now possible to study in detail how certain enzymes modify proteins…

Automatically finding collective coordinates of a physical system by analyzing and optimizing their information content

Fibres made of special glass and filled with a defined pattern of microscopic hollow channels are helping to better understand the sometimes strange properties of light. And they have led to a broad spectrum of real-world applications – from communications to medicine and environmental sensing. In a…

Karim Almahayni came with a very interdisciplinary background from the University of Oxford and is now doing his PhD in the Möckl Research Group at MPL under the supervision of Dr. Leonhard Möckl. His research interests combine biophysics, biophotonics and machine learning. For his PhD thesis he is…

Faezeh Nejati Hatamian did her BSc studies in Information Technology in Iran and then came for her MSc studies to Germany. She is now doing her PhD at the Pattern Recognition Lab at FAU under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Maier. Her research interests are for example Artificial Intelligence and…

Christoph Schönle is doing his PhD in the Theory Division of MPL under the supervision of Prof. Florian Marquardt. For his PhD thesis he is focussing on machine learning and its applications to physics. He is specifically interested in generative neural networks and how they can be used for tasks…