Tomohisa Toda, Professor of Neural Epigenomics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has been awarded another European Research Council (ERC) grant to investigate the roles of long-lived nuclear RNA in the maintenance of brain function and brain ageing. Most of his research will…

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IMPRS Annual Meeting

Congratulations to Maximilian Eiche and Julia Kolb for winning this year's IMPRS poster awards!

The 14th annual meeting of our IMPRS Physics of Light (IMPRS-PL) simultaneously became the 1^st annual meeting of our IMPRS Physics of Medicine (IMPRS-PM). The conference for both graduate programs took place on October 18^th and was designed to deepen collaborations not only between IMPRS-PL and…

In 2023, the retreat was organized for June 19th and 20th at the hotel “Festung Rosenberg” in Kronach. To establish ties between IMPRS-PL and IMPRS-PM and encourage collaboration between all students, the decision was taken to have a joint retreat of both research schools.

Its program included…

Learn more about our great International Max Planck Research School Physics of Light (IMPRS), what it's like working at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) doing your Master's degree or PhD and how the team at MPL support you in the new IMPRS movie.

On May 2nd, 2023 we had our first MPL Open Day. The advertising event was implemented to present our excellent research facilities and the areas in which our scientists concentrate to interested Bachelor’s and Master’s students from FAU.

Previously many local students had not known about the…

Karim Almahayni has been chosen as one of 635 young scientists to attend the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. The MPL researcher from the group of Leonhard Möckl will have the chance to meet around 40 Nobel Laureates from the field of Physiology/Medicine.

Interview with Prof. Daqing Wang, an MPL alumni who is now a Tenure Track Professor at Kassel and just managed to secure a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)