Abbe School of Photonics

The Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) offers comprehensive Master's degree and doctoral programs run by ACP members and associated professors.
Abbe School of Photonics Master students.
Image: Christoph Worsch (University of Jena)

As part of our ACP, our integrated Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) offers comprehensive Master's degree and doctoral programs run by ACP members and associated professors. The ASP fellows receive training at an infrastructure of light sources, materials and instrumentation for cutting-edge research unique in several respects. One aspect is the organization and carrying out of workshops, seminars, colloquia, symposiums and lecture series which occurs throughout the entire year.

ASP career development scheme.
ASP career development scheme.
Graphic: Abbe School of Photonics

Moreover, we conduct a great international guest professor program together with our guest researcher seminar. These not only provide an overview of top-level research, but also cover the broad spectrum of optics and photonics and associated material sciences, presented by internationally renowned speakers. This discipline-specific program is a part of the education curriculum of the Graduate Academy de of the Friedrich Schiller University, and is complemented by international exchange programs and skill workshops. Thus, ASP aims to prepare its Master's degree and doctoral students for their future careers within and outside of academia and for excelling in today's global society.

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Master's degree candidates

  • Master's degree candidates are invited to apply via ASP's Online Application PortalExternal link. Each application will be individually considered by an evaluation committee, and the candidates with the greatest prospective for successful studies at ASP will selected for admission. Moreover, scholarships of currently 934 EUR/month and for up to 24 months are available for the most excellent applicants. For more information, please consider the description of ASP's Master's degree program.

Doctoral students / PhD candidates

Postdoctoral fellows / Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellows

Testimonials from our doctoral candicates / PhD students

Prof. Gerhard Paulus preparing for an experimental physics lecture
Picture: MPSP

Testimonials from Master's degree candidats Minyi Zhong, Kathrin Rieken, Rossa McKiernan, and Frank Gounou

Image recognition in an ultrafast 3D measuring setup.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

Testimonials from doctoral candicates / PhD students of the Jena Alliance Graduate Schools

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Image: FSU