Inauguration ceremony of the new ACP building in 2016.

Principal scientists

All ACP principal scientists are independently running a reseach group in or related to photonics.
Inauguration ceremony of the new ACP building in 2016.
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The ACP regular membership is open to all members of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena de who are leading their own research group in the field of optics and photonics and are regularly engaged in teaching in the Abbe School of Photonics.

Prof. Michael Bauer

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Prof. Dr. Michael BAUER

Experimental Anesthesiology

  • In vivo fluorescence microscopy
  • Hepatic function monitoring by dye exclusion
  • In situ assessment of stellate cell composition

Prof. Dr. Christoph Biskup

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Prof. Dr. Christoph BISKUP

Biomolecular Photonics

  • Quantitative multidimensional fluorescence microscopy (mwFLIM, FRET, confocal patch clamp fluorometry)
  • Synthesis and characterization of indicators and nanosensors for ions and biomolecules
  • Structural and functional relationships of ion channels

Prof. Vladan Blahnik

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Prof. Dr. Vladan BLAHNIK

Optical System Design

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocklitz.

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Prof. Dr. Thomas BOCKLITZ

Photonic-Data Science

  • Machine learning for photonic image data
  • Chemometrics for spectral data
  • Correlation of different measurement methods and data fusion

Prof. Dr. Michael Börsch

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Prof. Dr. Michael BÖRSCH

Single-Molecule Microscopy

  • Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy
  • Nanomanipulation of biological protein machines with optical feedback
  • Optical super-resolution microscopy

Prof. Dr. Axel Brakhage

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Prof. Dr. Axel BRAKHAGE

Microbiology & Molecular Biology

  • Pathobiology of Aspergillus fumigatus
  • Microbial communication and activation of silent gene clusters of the fungal secondary metabolism
  • Eukaryotic transcription factors

Prof. Dr. Delia Brauer

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Prof. Dr. Delia BRAUER

Structure-Property Relationships in Glasses

  • Structure-property relationship in silicate and phosphate glasses
  • Fluoride-containing glasses and glass-ceramics for applications in optics and photonics
  • Improving the hydrolytic stability of phosphate glasses

Dr. Mario CHEMNITZ

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Jun. Prof. Dr. Mario CHEMNITZ

Smart Photonics

  • Optical system automation and machine learning
  • Nonlinear fiber optics
  • Adaptive fiber systems

Dr. Maria Chernysheva.

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Dr. Maria CHERNYSHEVA

Ultrafast Fiber Laser Systems

  • Ultrashort pulses in fiber laser sources
  • Advancement of optical fiber materials, structures and nonlinearities
  • Fiber applications for biophotonics

Volker DECKERT

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Prof. Dr. Volker DECKERT

Nanospectroscopy

  • Tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)
  • Label-free single molecule spectroscopy
  • Membranes and membrane proteins

Benjamin DIETZEK-IVANSIC.

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Prof. Dr. Benjamin DIETZEK-IVANŠIC

Molecular Photonics

  • Spatial and temporal resolved nanospectroscopy
  • Light-induced transfers in artificial molecules
  • Microspectroscopy of bio-molecular systems

Dr. Eva von Domaros

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Dr. Eva VON DOMAROS

Stimuli-Responsive Inorganic/Hybrid Materials

    • Nuclear quantum effects in electronic structure calculations
    • Anharmonic effects
    • Material properties based on statistical approaches

Prof. Christian Eggeling

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Prof. Dr. Christian EGGELING

Biophysical Imaging

  • Advanced microscopy for the investigation of molecular organization and dynamics in cells
  • Superresolution STED microscopy
  • Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

Falk EILENBERGER

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Dr. Falk EILENBERGER

Optics in 2D-Materials

  • Fundamental optical properties of 2D-Materials
  • Integration of 2D-Materials in optical systems and components
  • Application of 2D materials for light sources and imaging systems

Jun. Prof. Christian Franke.

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Jun. Prof. Dr. Christian FRANKE

Digitized Experimental Microscopy

  • Super-resolution microscopy
  • Single-molecule localization and random structured illumination microscopy
  • 3D stereophotogrammetry

Prof. Torsten Fritz

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Prof. Dr. Torsten FRITZ

Organic Thin Films & Surface Science

  • Structure-property relations in organic molecules and thin films
  • Optical in situ spectroscopy of ultrathin films
  • Electronic and optical properties of 2D materials

Prof. Dr. Stephan Fritzsche

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Prof. Dr. Stephan FRITZSCHE

Relativistic Quantum Dynamics

  • Multi-photon ionization dynamics in intense FEL radiation
  • Light-matter interactions in strong Coulomb fields
  • Particle beams carrying quantized orbital angular momentum

Prof. Wolfgang Fritzsche.

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apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang FRITZSCHE

Nanobiophotonics

  • Molecular Plasmonics
  • Plasmonic Sensing
  • Micro-Nano-Integration

Prof. Martin Gärttner.

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Prof. Dr. Martin GÄRTTNER

Quantum information and quantum many-body theory

  • Quantum simulation
  • Entanglement detection
  • Quantum state tomography

Holger GIES

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Prof. Dr. Holger GIES

Quantum Field Theory

  • Light propagation in modified quantum vacua
  • Fundamental physics at the intensity frontier
  • Quantum optical analogues of field theory phenomena

Stefanie GRÄFE

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Prof. Dr. Stefanie GRÄFE

Theoretical Chemistry

  • Strong-field molecular physics and chemistry
  • Electronic and spectroscopic properties of molecular systems
  • Theoretical methods in Femtosecond Chemistry and Attosecond Physics

Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinemann

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Prof. Dr. Stefan HEINEMANN

Biophysics

  • Photonic regulation of membrane potential and optogenetics
  • Single-cell sensors for phototoxicity
  • Optical monitoring of cellular function

Rainer HEINTZMANN

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Prof. Dr. Rainer HEINTZMANN

Biological Nanoimaging

  • Multidimensional imaging in biological systems
  • Structured illumination microscopy
  • Fluorescence microscopy in living cells

PD Dr. habil. Jer-Shing Huang, Leibniz-IPHT

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PD Dr. habil. Jer-Shing HUANG

Nanoplasmonics

  • Surface plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy
  • Plasmonic photovoltaics
  • Optical nanocircuits and smart analytical platforms

Prof. Dr. Malte Kaluza

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Prof. Dr. Malte KALUZA

Relativistic Laser Physics

  • Generation of petawatt laser sources
  • Laser-driven particle acceleration
  • Relativistic laser-plasma interactions

Dr. Daniil Kartashov

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Dr. Daniil KARTASHOV

Strong Field Nanophotonics

  • Plasma based X-ray sources
  • Nonlinear optics on the nanoscale
  • Ultrabroad spectral continuum generation

Erika KOTHE

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Prof. Dr. Erika KOTHE

Microbial Communication

  • Microimaging of fungal cells
  • Visualization of molecular interactions
  • Detection of communication molecules

Dr. Matthias Kübel.

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Dr. Matthias KÜBEL

Molecular Movies

  • Time-resolved molecular imaging
  • Correlated ionization dynamics
  • Few-cycle laser pulses, harmonic generation and interferometry

Prof. Dr. Jens Limpert

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Prof. Dr. Jens LIMPERT

Fiber & Waveguide Lasers

  • Design of high-performance & short-pulse laser systems, Novel fiber designs
  • Fiber-optical frequency conversion
  • High repetition rate Attosecond-pulse generation and characterization

Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorkowski

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Prof. Dr. Stefan LORKOWSKI

Imaging of Cellular Processes

  • Uptake and intracellular transport of small molecules (nutrients, metabolites and drugs)
  • Visualization of molecular processes in atherosclerosis
  • Immune cells as therapeutic targets and biological read-out systems

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo Mappes

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timo MAPPES

History of Physics with focus on Science Communication

  • Transferring historic optics concepts to recent applications in optics and photonics
  • Reproducing, revisiting and interconnecting milestones in optics and photonics
  • Science communication in optics and photonics

Prof. Ute Neugebauer

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Prof. Dr. Ute NEUGEBAUER

Clinical Spectroscopic Diagnostics

  • Spectroscopic elucidation of pathogenesis mechanisms during difficult-to-treat infections
  • Spectroscopic characterization of the host response during inflammation, infection and sepsis
  • Characterization of drug-pathogen interactions to reveal phenotypic antibiotic susceptibility

Stefan NOLTE

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Prof. Dr. Stefan NOLTE

Ultrafast Optics

  • Material processing with ultrashort laser pulses
  • 3D structuring inside transparent materials
  • Linear and nonlinear optics in discrete systems

Jun. Prof. Dr. Andrea Pannwitz

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Jun. Prof. Dr. Andrea PANNWITZ

Molecular Light Energy Conversion

  • Chemical synthesis of organic compounds and artificial photosynthesis
  • Light-driven molecular catalysis
  • Steady state and time resolved spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Paulus

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Prof. Dr. Gerhard PAULUS

Nonlinear Optics

  • Quantum optics with single optical cycles
  • Attosecond laser physics
  • Nonlinear optics with vortex beams

Thomas PERTSCH

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Prof. Dr. Thomas PERTSCH

Nano & Quantum Optics

  • Photonic nanomaterials and metamaterials
  • Nanoplasmonics
  • Nonlinear space-time dynamics

Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel

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Prof. Dr. Ulf PESCHEL

Solid State Optics

  • Integrated optics and nanophotonics
  • Nonlinear dynamics
  • Electromagnetic modelling

Adrian PFEIFFER

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Dr. Adrian N. PFEIFFER

Attosecond Laser Physics

  • Novel technology for attosecond science
  • Time-resolved deep UV spectroscopy
  • Strong-field driven electron dynamics

 

Jürgen Popp

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Prof. Dr. Jürgen POPP

Biophotonics

  • Raman spectroscopy for biomedical diagnostics (microbial analysis & cell and tissue diagnostics)
  • Multimodal imaging
  • Chip based analytics and diagnostics

 

Prof. Ralf Röhlsberger.

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Prof. Dr. Ralf RÖHLSBERGER

X-ray Physics

  • Hard x-rays from synchrotron sources
  • Nucelar resonant scattering
  • Spin and magnetization dynamics

 

 

Carsten RONNING

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Prof. Dr. Carsten RONNING

Physics of Nanoscale Solids

  • Semiconductor nanowires
  • Metasurfaces
  • Photovoltaics

 

 

Dr. Jan Rothhardt

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Dr. habil. Jan ROTHHARDT

X-ray Spectroscopy and Microscopy

  • Laser-based short wavelength sources and spectroscopy
  • Nanometer scale imaging techniques
  • XUV spectroscopy of highly charged ions

 

Dr. Sina SARAVI

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Dr. Sina SARAVI 

Nonlinear Neuromorphic and Quantum Systems

  • Optical computers
  • Integrated quantum photonics
  • Nanostructured photonic systems

 

Prof. Dr. Felix Schacher

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Prof. Dr. Felix SCHACHER

Polymeric Nanostructures

  • Self-assembly of macromolecules
  • Synthesis & characterization of functional polymers
  • Hierachical structures

 

Prof. Heidemarie Schmidt.

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Prof. Dr. Heidemarie SCHMIDT

Quantum Detection

  • Cryogenic single photon detectors
  • Impedance biochips
  • Magnetooptics and electrooptics

 

 

Markus SCHMIDT

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Prof. Dr. Markus A. SCHMIDT

Fiber Sensors

  • Novel concepts in fiber optics (e.g. plasmonics, metamaterials)
  • Nanophotonics
  • Biophotonic fiber sensors

 

apl. Prof. Michael Schmitt.

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apl. Prof. Dr. Michael SCHMITT

Material- & Biophotonics

  • Non-linear multimodal microspectroscopy
  • Raman- and resonance Raman spectroscopy
  • Optical Pathology

 

 

Dr. Jacob SCHNEIDEWIND

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Dr. Jacob SCHNEIDEWIND

Water Splitting

  • Mechanistic studies of light-driven chemical reactions
  • Photocatalyst development
  • Green hydrogen and solar energy

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schubert

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Prof. Dr. Ulrich SCHUBERT

Organic & Macromolecular Chemistry

  • Chemical fabrication methods for photonic materials
  • Nanolithograhy and Nanochemistry
  • Block copolymer nanostructures

 

Dr. Frank Setzpfandt

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Dr. habil. Frank SETZPFANDT

Quantum Optics

  • Quantum Imaging
  • Photon-pair generation
  • Nonlinear optics

 

 

Jun. Prof. Dr. Giancarlo Soavi

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Jun. Prof. Dr. Giancarlo SOAVI

Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy

  • Optics of 2D materials
  • Time-resolved spectroscopy
  • Nonlinear optics

 

Christian SPIELMANN

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Prof. Dr. Christian SPIELMANN

Quantum Electronics

  • Generation of laser based coherent x-ray radiation
  • High resolution x-ray microscopy
  • Time resolved x-ray spectroscopy

 

Prof. Isabelle Staude.

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Prof. Dr. Isabelle STAUDE

Photonic Nanomaterials

  • High-index dielectric nanoparticles
  • Nanoantennas and hybrid quantum systems
  • Functional metasurfaces

 

 

Fabian STEINLECHNER

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Prof. Dr. Fabian STEINLECHNER

Quantum Communication Technology

  • Nonlinear quantum optics
  • High-dimensional quantum information processing
  • Long-distance quantum communication

 

Dr. Ronny STOLZ

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Prof. Dr. Ronny STOLZ

Quantum Systems

  • Superconductivity,
  • Experimental Quantum Technology
  • Geophysical mineral exploration methods
  • Magnetic, electromagnetic and gravimetric methods in Geophysics

Prof. Dr. Thomas Stöhlker

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Prof. Dr. Thomas STÖHLKER

Atomic Physics in Extreme Coulomb & Laser Fields

  • x-ray spectroscopy, polarimetry & instrumentation
  • Laser-based x-ray generation
  • Strong field effects in the dynamics and structure of simple atomic systems at high-Z

Adriana SZEGHALMI

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Dr. Adriana SZEGHALMI

Atomic Layer Deposition

  • Thin film coatings for optical applications
  • Technology research on novel ALD methods
  • Resonant diffractive optical elements

Prof. Dr. Andreas Tünnermann

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Prof. Dr. Andreas TÜNNERMANN

Applied Optics

  • Design, manufacturing & characterization of advanced photonic systems (e.g. freeform optics)
  • Diode pumped solid state lasers and amplifiers
  • Laser - material interaction

Andrey TURCHANIN

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Prof. Dr. Andrey TURCHANIN

Applied Physical Chemistry & Molecular Nanotechnology

  • Emerging two-dimensional materials (graphene, carbon nanomembranes, MoS2, etc.) and their van der Waals heterostructures
  • Nanolithography and ultramicroscopy
  • Applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices

Prof. Lothar Wondraczek

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Prof. Dr.-Ing Lothar WONDRACZEK

Optical Materials

  • Topological origin of the properties of non-crystalline and glassy solids
  • Characterization of glasses by optical and x-ray scattering techniques
  • Development of new glass composites for optical applications

Prof. Matt Zepf.

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Prof. Dr. Matt ZEPF

Laser-Particle Acceleration

  • Strong Field Physics/QED
  • Laser-driven particle acceleration
  • Relativistic laser-plasma interactions