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Congratulations to Markéta Icha Kubánková on receiving the Hermann Neuhaus Prize from the Max Planck Society (MPS)! 👏👏 The prize, worth 25,000 euros, recognizes excellent postdocs and research group leaders who are conducting research with the potential for application at a Max Planck Institute. Dr Kubánková from the Department of Biological Optomechanics of MPL Director Prof Jochen Guck is investigating whether and how the physical properties of cells in human blood or tissue change during disease. She wants to use the findings on mechanical cell changes during disease for diagnostic purposes. Kubánková's research is carried out in close collaboration with the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen as part of the newly established Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) in Erlangen. "The work leading to the prize was a team effort and I am very grateful to my colleagues at MPL, MPZPM, FAU and the Uniklinikum Erlangen, as well as all the other participants, for their support. We will use the prize money to progress with medical research", said Kubánková. This year's Hermann Neuhaus Prize was awarded twice: to Markéta Icha Kubánková, MPL, and Oren Moscovitz, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gPPkUNBk 📸 © David Ausserhofer

❗ Wir suchen ❗ Zur Unterstützung der Institutsleitung des Max-Planck-Instituts für die Physik des Lichts beim Arbeitsschutz, der Unfallverhütung und der menschengerechten Gestaltung der Arbeit suchen wir für beide Standorte baldmöglichst eine 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗳𝘂̈𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁 (𝗺/𝘄/𝗱) 𝗜𝗵𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝗳𝗴𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗻, 𝘂.𝗮.: • Organisation des Arbeitsschutzes für zwei Standorte in Erlangen • Unterstützung des Institutsleitung bei der -Planung, Ausführung und Unterhaltung von Betriebsanlagen und sozialen Einrichtungen - Beschaffung von technischen Arbeitsmitteln und der Einführung von Arbeitsverfahren und Arbeitsstoffen - Gestaltung der Arbeitsplätze, des Arbeitsablaufs, der Arbeitsumgebung • Überprüfung der Betriebsanlagen und der technischen Arbeitsmittel insbesondere vor der Inbetriebnahme im Hinblick auf Arbeitssicherheit • Hinwirkung auf entsprechendes Verhalten, Mitwirkung bei Belehrungen 𝗜𝗵𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹: • Abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium und Aufbaufortbildung als Sicherheitsfachkraft oder einschlägiges Hochschulstudium als Dipl. Ing. für Sicherheitstechnik; alternativ kann nach Absprache eine Ausbildung zur Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit (m/w/d) angeboten werden • Berufserfahrung in hochinstallierten Forschungsbetrieben wünschenswert • Kommunikations- und Teamfähigkeit sowie eine gute Zusammenarbeit mit allen Berufsgruppen und Nationalitäten • Deutsch und Englisch fließend in Wort und Schrift Haben wir Ihr Interesse geweckt? Hier finden Sie alle Infos: https://lnkd.in/gTH2aF3G #stellenangebot #jobsuche #jobs #karriere

❗ Wir suchen ❗ Die Betriebstechnik am Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts in Erlangen sucht Verstärkung! 👊 Elektroniker*in für Gebäude- und Infrastruktursysteme (m/w/d): https://lnkd.in/dQubw44s   Anlagenmechaniker*in für den Bereich Heizung, Lüftung, Sanitär, Kälte und Gase (w/m/d): https://lnkd.in/dWJx4NBg   Elektroniker*in für Energie- und Gebäudetechnik (m/w/d): https://lnkd.in/deJwB9bn Haben wir Ihr Interesse geweckt? Dann bewerben Sie sich spätestens bis zum 31.07.2024.

Research Group Jona Kayser: Cellular Evolution Using genetically modified cancer cells, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light are able to decipher the underlying physical mechanisms and tissue dynamics influencing tumor therapy resistance.    This image shows a dynamic two-dimensional community of melanoma cells (cancer cells) which have been genetically modified to fluoresce. In this section, one can observe how cells can align themselves harmoniously due to their complicated mechanical interactions. This phenomenon is known as „nematics“. Such processes not only play a decisive role in embryonic development, but can also be observed in cancer tissues. © 📸: Maximilian Eiche

Another outstanding event in our Distinguished Lecturer Series is just around the corner! 🤩   Isabelle Staude, Professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena will give her fascinating talk "Tailoring light fields with active semiconductor metasurfaces" on July 4 at 2 pm CET. The lecture will take place in the Leuchs-Russell Auditorium. It will also be streamed via Zoom as well as recorded and added to our YouTube channel for anyone who misses the talk! ▶️ Tailoring light fields with active semiconductor metasurfaces 🕒 Thursday, July 4, 2024, 2 pm CET 📍 Leuchs-Russell Auditorium at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen 👉 Zoom access: https://lnkd.in/drrE65mP Meeting-ID: 668 2889 4164 Code: 290645

𝗔 𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘀 Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), as a source of entangled photons, is of great interest for quantum physics and quantum technology, but so far it could be only implement­ed in solids. Scientists of the Research Group of Maria Chekhova at the MPL and Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, have demonstrated, for the first time, SPDC in a liquid crystal. The results, recently published in Nature, open a path to a new generation of quantum sources: efficient and elec­tric-field tunable. Learn more: https://bit.ly/MPL_SPDC #quantum #physics #technology © Tanya Chekhova

Please share: Registration is now open for the 2nd international workshop on machine learning for quantum technologies, to take place this November at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany. https://lnkd.in/e_3aQXVg #MachineLearning #QuantumTechnologies #QuantumComputing Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Munich Quantum Valley FAU Profile Center Light.Matter.QuantumTechnologies

Great collaboration result with the group of Jean-Michel Menard in experimentally proving the creation of a quantum material, resulting from the hybridization of a terahertz cavity field with glucose. A particularly interesting "hybrid" design of the cavity is assumed, where a metasurface is interfaced with a standard mirror. This is an experiment-theory effort facilitated by the Max Planck - University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics, established by University of Ottawa and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. Publication: "Hybrid architectures for terahertz molecular polaritonics", Ahmed Jaber, Michael Reitz, Avinash Kumar Singh, Ali Maleki, Yongbao Xin, Brian T. Sullivan, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Robert W. Boyd, Claudiu Genes and Jean-Michel Menard, Nature Communications, 4427 (2024), https://lnkd.in/ezW3SeyS (Graphic: Alexandra Genes, Genes Design, 6111 Volders, Austria)

The MPL Technology Development and Service Unit: Fibre Fabrication & Glass Studio Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) use specially developed fibers to control the timing of signals propagating at the speed of light precisely.   This image shows the preform of a glass fiber, which was created by manually stacking many glass rods. The glass fiber consists of 19 fiber cores with various refractive index profiles. Some have high indices in their centers, which decrease radially towards the edges before undergoing a step change to either a lower or a higher index. Other cores have a high index in the center and two steps with progressively lower indices. Each fiber core therefore has its own dispersion spectrum, as a result of which optical signals in the 19 cores propagate with specific time delays. © 📸: Linda Uta

𝗜𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗶𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘂𝘅, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘅-𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸-𝗭𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗸 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘁-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵! With Ladoux, the MPZPM not only gains a world-leading researcher in the field of biophysics, but now has a fourth Humboldt Professor on its Scientific Board alongside Prof. Franze, Prof. Guck and Prof. Sandoghdar. Ladoux conducts research in the field of mechanobiology and together with his team studies the physical principles that govern the self-organization of cellular and tissue systems and their adaptation to the mechanical constraints of the environment. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dn_NHt8w From left to right: Prof. Jochen Guck (Spokesperson MPZPM), Prof. Benoit Ladoux (MPZPM), Prof. Kristian Franze (MPZPM), Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar (MPZPM), Prof. Joachim Hornegger (FAU President). Photo ©: David Ausserhofer