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.
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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
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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.
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Physical Colloquia in Winter Semester 2025/26
Gastvorträge für Hochschulmitarbeiter:innen und Studierende ab dem Masterstudium. Gelegenheit zum gemeinsamen Austausch.
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Beyond classical resolution limits: Dr Wilhelm Eschen receives the Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Werth Prize
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.
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Rowena Morse Prize 2025: Award for Priv.-Doz. Dr. habil. Stephanie Lippmann
Honored on Schiller Day for outstanding academic achievements
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How Light Enables Secure Communication
Jena researchers develop new approaches for quantum communication via optical fibre
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QUICK³-Mission: Quantum Satellite with Jena Expertise Launches into Space
The QUICK³ nanosatellite will be used to test key components for the construction of a quantum satellite system in space - a crucial step for secure communication for the future. Additionally, the mission aims to verify a fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
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Visit from Braunschweig
Impressed by the research opportunities thanks to the variety of topics in research and the best laboratory equipment
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