Insightful Essay by Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar in Phys. Rev. Lett. outlining some of the key phenomena in the human body that are based on physical principles. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

.AMOLF scientists in collab with Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Universität Basel, ETH Zürich & Universität Wien, have realized a new type of metamaterial through which sound waves flow in an unprecedented fashion. The metamaterial is the 1st instance of a so-called ‘bosonic Kitaev chain’.

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A rather unusual project at our institute was presented at the vernissage 'Black Hole Sun' this Thursday.

The experimenters, no physicists this time, but the artist duo Brunner/Ritz, unveiled their work created especially for the institute.

#art #physics #light 📸

Congrats to our Postdoctoral Fellow Clara Wanjura on winning the annual SAMOP thesis prize of the German Physical Society (DPG) for her dissertation 'Non-Hermitian Topology and Directional Amplification in Driven-Dissipative Cavity Arrays'! 👏

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Congrats to Wehner lab, Daniel Wehner, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, on being awarded the Young Research Award from the German Society of Developmental Biology GfE!

Here is the full story: bit.ly/3Pn645o

Apply now for one of our Lise Meitner Research Groups 2024! Your applications for this #tenuretrack positions at #MaxPlanckInstitutes will be accepted until April 10th 2024. -> mpg.de/11946549/lise-… #LiseMeitnerGroups #CareerinScience #WomeninScience

We published new results on imaging of optical standing wave patterns in tiny ring resonators. This enables real-time distance measurements of scattering targets with nanometer precision with applications in bio-sensing and light-matter interactions.
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Lewis Hill elected as chair of Optica's largest technical group. 👏

The senior scientist in the Del'Haye Research Group for microphotonics at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light will hold the position in the global nonlinear optics technical group for three years.

👉 bit.ly/Hill_MPL

.Humboldt-Stiftung appointed Birgit Stiller as Henriette Herz Scout 👏

Dr. Stiller, group leader in #quantum #optoacoustics at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, now has the opportunity to nominate three talented researchers from abroad to join her group as a Postdoc.

More 👉 bit.ly/Stiller_MPL

New from the SandoghdarLab! μkiss is a micropipette-based approach for delivering very small amounts of nanoparticles and small molecules to the cell surface with exquisite spatiotemporal control, enabling a wide range of biological investigations. nature.com/articles/s4159…

You can now deliver chemicals and nanoparticles where you and and when you want by simply giving a microkiss; interested? read our new article Nature Methods :
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