What is the work of a scientist like? 14 participants of #GirlsDay2022 are here today to find out. The students are getting a grand tour of the building, with talks, experiments and tours through our labs. Our scientists and mechanics shed some light on what we do here at MPL.

Check out our latest work with Masarik Cancer Research Lab, Jaromír Gumulec, and others about how cancer associated fibroblasts can support tumor progression but don't necessarily need to. Thanks Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin for supporting this work.

We are excited to welcome Stefan Münster Stefan Münster, who is establishing his DFG public | @[email protected] Emmy-Noether-Group here in the FranzeLab 🇺🇦 at FAU Erlangen-Nbg. Stefan will be investigating the #biophysics of tissues in developing embryos and to apply this knowledge to design 3D #organoids.

#FAU is strengthening its expertise on #quantum #technology. Christoph Marquardt, currently with Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, is now tenured #FAUprof. #FAUcongrats!👏 Christoph did and does exciting research. The main focus of his work is on continuous-variable quantum communication. FAU Erlangen-Nbg

Congrats to Stiller Research Group! Xinglin Zeng’s work on “Nonreciprocal light-driven vortex isolator” has been accepted as a postdeadline paper at CLEO2022 in San Jose, USA. More details on the arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2203.03680.

A new method for exploring the nano-world: A team from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin led by Vahid Sandoghdar SandoghdarLab has been published in Nature Methods with a new method called iNTA that offers a big leap in the characterization of nanoparticles. nature.com/articles/s4159…

MPL director Vahid Sandoghdar is a physicist who explores biology’s unknowns, with greater precision by linking two methods. He has been covered in this month’s issue of the scientific journal Nature Methods in the rubric „The Author File“. SandoghdarLab nature.com/articles/s4159…

It's barbecue season! Here at MPL, we don't need a grill or coal for that – we use sunlight. The lens that the team around Hanieh Fattahi used for the barbecue will later be used to supply a laser with energy. Photos: MPL #light #physics #optics #science #barbecue

Vasily Zaburdaev 🇺🇦 starting off the first day of our group retreat with a fascinating and beautiful presentation on bacterial #biofilm formation Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin #GuckLabRetreat2022

Today, Birgit Stiller, together with the directors of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light opened the 4th annual WOMBAT event. On the first day, Gustavo Wiederhecker, Warwick Bowen, Francesca Palumbo and Marc Serra-Garcia started the workshop with tutorials to bring everyone up to speed.

The Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin had its' official topping-out ceremony yesterday! Bavarian Economic Affairs Minister Hubert Aiwanger visited along with members of Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, FAU Erlangen-Nbg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen. We look forward to the next steps in this great cooperation!

A fascinating talk by Jochen Guck 🇺🇦 opens the Biophysics from Experiment to Computation session!

Maria Chekhova has been chosen as Physicist of the Week by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG). Congratulations Maria! Here you can find a link with more information on Marias research and the Physicist of the Week format by the DPG: dpg-physik.de/vereinigungen/…

New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering: How to create an artificial pathologist A team from our new research center around Despina Soteriou Markéta Kubánková and Jochen Guck 🇺🇦 has created a new, fast and precise method to analyse cells in tissue samples. mpl.mpg.de/fileadmin/user…

FAU Bachelor students are invited to experience a quantum of the work undertaken by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light on May 2nd. We look forward to seeing you at the first MPL Open Day! #MPLopenday #research #erlangen #graduate school #imprs FAU Erlangen-Nbg

📢REMINDER! 💊Als Plattform für angehende Gründer im Bereich der Medizintechnik bietet das Gründungscafé die perfekte Gelegenheit, um sich mit Gleichgesinnten zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und voneinander zu lernen. 👉mehr Infos unter: existency.de/gruendungscafe/ Existencyofficial

It's a pleasure and an honour to announce that GuckLab 🇺🇦 and rivercyte have successfully established deformability cytometry Carmen Scheibenbogen Lab Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and at Uta Behrends Lab TU München We'll work together on biomarkers in #LongCovid #MECFS THX Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin

APPLY NOW! APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 7th, 2023 We offer #MSc #stipends and #PhD #positions in our #graduate #program Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin. More information at mpzpm.de/study-work-or-… FAU Erlangen-Nbg, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the University Hospital #Erlangen.

APPLY NOW! APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 7th, 2023 Don´t forget to submit your application! We offer #MSc #stipends and #PhD #positions in our #graduate #program More information at mpzpm.de/imprs FAU Erlangen-Nbg, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the University Hospital #Erlangen.

EPS-QEOD PRIZE 2023 for our Managing Director Vahid Sandoghdar Prof. Sandoghdar is honored by the European Physical Society (EPS) for his pioneering research investigating the efficiency of light-matter interactions in quantum optics and biophysics. Read more here: mpl.mpg.de/news-events/ne…