Three of the world's leading scientists in the field of cancer physics are to receive the 2024 Greve Prize from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for their outstanding research in the fields of natural sciences, medicine and engineering. Among them is Prof. Dr. Jochen Guck, Director…

Using optoacoustic neural networks to take artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level. This is the ambitious goal of the “SOUND-PC” research project for which Prof. Birgit Stiller, Leader of the Research Group “Quantum Optoacoustics” at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and…

Steven Becker obtained his doctoral degree on November 29th, 2024 when he successfully defended his doctoral thesis about “Unlocking Optoacoustics for Photonic Machine Learning”. Well done!

Congratulations to Julia Kolb, who graduated with an outstanding PhD thesis on SLRPs in spinal cord injury.

The Photonics100 list for 2025 was published recently. Among the top innovators in photonics featured in the list is Prof. Dr. Birgit Stiller. She is head of the research group ›Quantum Optoacoustics‹ at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL).

On October 16th the second joint annual meeting of our two IMPRS Physics of Light and IMPRS Physics and Medicine took place at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. In the afternoon we had a poster session where all students and PIs from MPL, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität…

Daniel Wehner has been decorated with the RISING STAR AWARD by the International Society for Regenerative Biology (ISRB). The prize honors early-career scientists charting new directions in regenerative biology and whose scientific contributions will have a lasting impact on research in the field.…

The three-day celebrations to mark the opening of the new Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin in Erlangen culminated in a ceremony on September 20th, 2024, attended by around 120 invited guests. Addresses from the Bavarian Minister President Dr. Markus Söder and the State Ministers Hubert…

On 20 September 2024, the new Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Erlangen was opened in the presence of The Bavarian Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder and the State Ministers Hubert Aiwanger and Markus Blume, as well as numerous prominent guests from the fields of science, society and…

Numerous guests of honor including Dr. Markus Söder (Minister President of Bavaria), Hubert Aiwanger (Minister of State for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy) and Markus Blume (Minister of State for Science and the Arts), Nobel Prize winners from the USA and Germany and renowned…

At the medical faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) a new professorship in Nano-Optical Imaging has been established. Since 1st September 2024 it has been occupied by Prof. Dr. Leonhard Möckl. It will be the first professorship to move into the new research building…

Dr. Hanieh Fattahi from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) is delighted to have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant and will receive around two million euros in funding over a period of five years. The head of the ‘Femtosecond Fieldoscopy’ research group will…

Congratulations! On July 19, 2024, Paul Beck successfully defended his doctoral thesis on „Structured light matter interactions at the micro- and nanoscale - Towards all-integrated nano-metrology and magneto-optical effects“.

Congratulations! On July 15, 2024, Andreas Geilen successfully defended his doctoral thesis on „Thermodynamics for Advancing and Controlling Brillouin Scattering“.

On June 27th and 28th, the annual meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will take place. Professor Jochen Guck, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), has been invited to give the keynote lecture at the opening ceremony, which will also be broadcast live.

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.

On May 2nd and 3rd our joint retreat of IMPRS Physics of Light and IMPRS Physics and Medicine took place at the RiesenGebirge Hotel in Neuhof an der Zenn.

Lightning talks took place on the first day, in which the Master's and PhD students introduced themselves. There were also interesting and…

On April 25^th our second „FAU meets IMPRS”-Event took place in the Foyer of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. We invited interested FAU Bachelor and Master students from the fields of Physics, Medical Engineering, Molecular Medicine and Integrated Life Sciences (ILS), to whom we…

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…

Flore Kunst, Lise Meitner Research Group Leader, is the new Equal Opportunities Officer at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and, as an award-winning researcher in a leading position, represents a role model for young female scientists in top international research.