LIGHT profile
The LIGHT profile encompasses research in the areas Optics and Photonics, Materials and Nanotechnologies, Energy Research and Environmental Technologies and Data-driven Sciences.
Laboratory of the Abbe School of Photonics
Jena LIGHT Conference 2025: PICPICPIC
Photonic Integrated Circuits: Production, Integration, and Characterization for Photonic Information and Communication
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Graphic: modif. Tung Nguyen/Pixabay; Falk Eilenberger Jena LIGHT 2025 – PICPICPICThe second event in the new Jena LIGHT Conference series, supported and facilitated by the LIGHT profile of the University of Jena, will take place at the Abbe Center of Photonics (Friedrich Schiller Univeristy Jena) in Jena from December 1 to 3, 2025.
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About the LIGHT profile
The laudable work of Zeiss, Abbe and Schott is globally recognised as a prime example of innovative symbiotic collaboration, consisting of excellent basic and applied research as well as successful, internationally oriented entrepreneurship.
Under this umbrella, the aim of the LIGHT profile is to foster the scientific strength of the Optics and Photonics sector and to integrate research on Materials and Nanotechnologies, Energy Research and Data-driven Sciences as further main research areas. Within the scope of this scientific background, creating sustainable interdisciplinary links with the fields of biology and medicine have been encouraging fruitful cooperations within the University motto LIGHT-LIFE-LIBERTY.
Research Structures - German Research Foundation
- Cluster of Excellence 2051 "Balance of the Microverse"External link
- CRC 1375 "NOA - Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic scales"
- CRC 1278 "PolyTarget - Polymer-based nanoparticle libraries for targeted anti-inflammatory strategies"
- CRC/Transregio TRR 234 "CataLight - Light-driven Molecular Catalysts in Hierarchically Structured Materials"
- GRK PhInt - Photo-polarizable Interfaces and Membranes
- International Research Training Group IRTG 2675 "META-ACTIVE - Tailored metasurfaces – generating, programming and detecting light"
- Research Unit FOR 2285 "Debris Disks in Planetary Systems"External link
- Research Unit FOR 2783 "Probing the Quantum Vacuum at the High-Intensity Frontier"External linkExternal link
- Research data infrastructure NFDI4ChemExternal linkde
Research Structures - European Union and European Research Council (ERC)
- BioQantSense - Twinning for Excellence of the Serbian Research Center for Quantum BiophotonicsExternal link
- CILCat – Nanocarbon-Ionic Liquid-Interfaces for Catalytic Activation of NitrogenExternal link
- DAFNE – Discretization and adaptive approximation of fully nonlinear equationsExternal link
- EMIMEP - European Master for Industry in Microwave Electronics and PhotonicsExternal link
- enjulii – Entropic rejuvenation of thin glass products by liquid metal immersionExternal link
- FutureBAT – Future storage systems for the energy transition: Polymer-based redox-flow batteriesExternal link
- InspiReM – Modeling binary neutron star from inspirals to remnants and their multimessenger emissionsExternal link
- Laserlab EuropeExternal link
- LIVE – Laser-Based Infrared Vibrational Electric-Field Fingerprinting
- LOGICLAB - Innovative Training NetworkExternal link
- Stain-It – Non-invasive computational immunohistochemical staining based on deep learning and multimodal imagingExternal link
Research Structures - Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- Hands-on! The MINT-Makerspace
- InfectoGnostics - Federal Research CampusExternal link
- Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI)External link
- Lichtwerkstatt Jena - Open Photonics Makerspace
- Max Planck School of Photonics - Photonics education of excellenceExternal link
- qp-tech.edu - Joint project on Quantum Photonics Technology Education
- QuantumMiniLabs - Joint project in the Quantum Futur framework
- Thuringian Water Innovation Cluster (ThWIC)
- UKPinho - Joint project of the RUBIN consortiumExternal link
Cooperation Partners
- Deutsches Optisches Museum (D.O.M.)External linkde
- DLR Institute of Data ScienceExternal link
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering Jena (IOF)External link
- Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems Hermsdorf (ITKS)External link
- Helmholtz-Institute Jena (HIJ)External link
- Helmholtz Institute for Polymers in Energy Applications (HIPOLE Jena)External link
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena (IPHT)External link
- Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI)External link
- University Hospital JenaExternal link
Contact
The coordination team of the LIGHT profile serves as the reporting and strategic body. Interims Spokesperson of the coordination team is Prof. Dr. Felix Schacher (Institute for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry), deputy spokesperson Prof. Dr. Holger Gies (Institute for Theoretical Physics).
Interim management
Felix Schacher, Prof. Dr
Spokesperson | LIGHT profile
Holger Gies, Univ.-Prof. Dr
Deputy Spokesperson | LIGHT profile
Jana Hölzer, Dr
Scientific Coordinator | LIGHT profile
