Year: 2012

Professor Marion Merklein head of the institute of Manufacturing Technology and PI of SAOT has been appointed to the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz committee of the German Research Foundation.

Zeev Zalevsky, 2010 YRA recipient, has published until January 2012 in total 62 articles in Applied Optics and is by this number ranked 15th in the list of the top 50 most-published authors during the last 50 years in Applied Optics which celebrates its Golden anniversary in 2012, the Optical Societ...

JEOS:RP welcomes third editor. The EOS online journal recently welcomed Professor Gerd Leuchs, SAOT Principal Investigator, as an editor for the important research field Quantum Optics.

Prof. Dr. Jana Zaumseil from FAU’s Department of Polymers Science has been awarded a prestigious research grant and will receive funding of almost 1.5 million euros. The scientist is part of a small group of young researchers who have been awarded one of the highly coveted ‘Starting Independent Rese...

The SAOT has been established at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in November 2006 within the framework of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments for the Promotion of Science and Research at German Universities. The SAOT project was selecte...

On Wednesday, 16th May 2012 Prof. Gerhard Leuchs was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, the Bavarian State Minister of Science, Research and the Arts. Dr. Heubisch emphasized Prof. Leuchs' outstanding research contributions in optics as well as his efforts during the founda...

The paper "Noninvasive measurement of pressure field arising from arbitrarily-shaped ultrasound transducers" by Lizhuo Chen, Stefan J. Rupitsch and Reinhard Lerch from the Lehrstuhl für Sensorik received the Best Student Paper Award at the 16th VDI/ITG congress.

SAOT graduate Dr. Andreas Fieselmann from the "Pattern Recognition Lab" has been distinguished during the 93rd German X-ray congress in Hamburg. The award is based on his contributions in the field of C-arm based perfusion imaging.

The ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” decorated Dr. Andreas Bräuer with the Professor-Siegfried-Peter-Award for outstanding, future oriented, sustainable and published achievements. During the annual meeting of the ProcessNet subsection “High Pressure Technology” -March 2nd, 2012 i...

SAOT Professor Andreas P. Fröba has been elected one of only four Associate Editors of the internationally well recognized International Journal of Thermophysics which is the leading journal for the determination of thermophysical properties of matters in the solid, liquid, and gaseous states. Prof....