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1. SPIE Honors Jürgen Popp for Bringing Biophotonics Closer to the Clinic

   Jürgen Popp has received the 2026 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award for his research into optical health technologies for medicine.

   23 January 2026

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2. University of Jena improves in several subjects in THE Subject Rankings 2026

   Times Higher Education lists Friedrich Schiller University Jena in eight out of eleven disciplines—upward trend in four disciplines

   21 January 2026

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3. 12.03.2026 Tag der Physik & Astronomie

   An exciting day for curious minds

   16 January 2026

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4. Chemical imaging: Antibiotic interaction on individual bacterial cells with unprecedented resolution

   An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Dr. Daniela Täuber in Jena has successfully mapped the local chemistry and structure of the antibiotic interaction on the surface of individual bacterial cells with a resolution of a few nanometers using the model system Bacillus subtilis and vancomycin.

   11 November 2025

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5. Ultrafast light, maximum precision: Jena researcher receives award at UFO XIV

   At the 14th Ultrafast Optics Conference (UFO XIV), held from 5 to 10 October 2025 in Furnas on São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal), Daniel Santiago Penagos Molina from the research group X-ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy at the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the University of Jena received second place in the Student Talk Award competition.

   21 October 2025

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6. Physical Colloquia in Winter Semester 2025/26

   Gastvorträge für Hochschulmitarbeiter:innen und Studierende ab dem Masterstudium. Gelegenheit zum gemeinsamen Austausch.

   13 October 2025