Summer is in full swing and that can only mean one thing: It’s time for our annual Faculty Party.On the 18th of june we warmly invite you to come join us for barbecue and drinks. You’ll also find out who’s awarded this years teaching trophy. And have you ever wanted to do some powerpoint-karaoke?
Dr. Jonas Junker joins the quantum physics team
An Intensive, Practice-Oriented Learning Experience.
Jürgen Popp has received the 2026 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award for his research into optical health technologies for medicine.
Times Higher Education lists Friedrich Schiller University Jena in eight out of eleven disciplines—upward trend in four disciplines
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.
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.
Dr Wilhelm Eschen, former doctoral student at the Institute of Applied Physics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, was awarded the prestigious Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Prize at the 23rd Alumni Day on 20 June 2025 was awarded.
Honored on Schiller Day for outstanding academic achievements
Jena researchers develop new approaches for quantum communication via optical fibre
