Dr. Daniil Kartashov (l) and Dr. Maria Wächtler are searching on ther nonlinear optic effect of generation of high harmonics in nanoscale semiconductors
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Dr. Daniil Kartashov (l) and Dr. Maria Wächtler are searching on ther nonlinear optic effect of generation of high harmonics in nanoscale semiconductors
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    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.
    Award in San Francisco: Prof. Laura Marcu (University of California, Davis) presents Prof. Jürgen Popp (Leibniz IPHT, University of Jena) with the SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award in San Francisco.
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    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
    In front of the large Uni Jena letters on Ernst Abbe Platz, people can be recognized out of focus.
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    12.03.2026 Tag der Physik & Astronomie

    An exciting day for curious minds
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    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.
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    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.
    Daniel Santiago Penagos Molina doing lab works.
    Image: Mahmoud Hafez Zaki Abdelaal
  6. Physical Colloquia in Winter Semester 2025/26

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