Author: Max Gmelch

At the Long Night of Sciences last Saturday, SAOT was involved threefold: More than 600 people visited our panOPTICUM to learn about photonics and optical technologies. We were honored to welcome Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann as a special guest. Thank you all for your curiosi...

Erlangen, June 2025 – This year’s Summer School offered a dynamic platform for cultural and academic exchange between doctoral candidates from the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) and their fellow researchers from Princeton, Rowan, and Rutgers universities in the USA....

How did quantum physics evolve? Last Monday in our panOPTICUM, more than 150 guests joined us on our journey to the origins of quantum theory more than 100 years ago. Curious? See the video below:  

What a night! More than 500 people visited our christmas lecture. Now the video is online! Enjoy watching:   A big thank you to the Multimediazentrum of FAU.  

For the first time in its more than 20-year history, the Department of Physics' Christmas Lecture will not be presented by a physics chair. Instead, we as SAOT are in charge this year. We collaborate with the Department of Physics and the Collegium Alexandrinum. Join us on December 3rd! See detai...

Before Philipp Pelz started as professor for computational materials microscopy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the National Center for Electron Microscopy, US. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg and the Max ...

For the 13th time, the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) invites young researchers to apply for the SAOT Young Researcher Award (YRA) in Advanced Optical Technologies. The 100.000 € award is open to scientists with a proven record in optics, photonics and optical tech...

Schmetterlinge bleichen nie aus, und ihre Farben schimmern im Sonnenlicht. Wieso? Es liegt an der besonderen Struktur ihrer Flügel.

Am 3. Oktober öffnen wir unsere Türen für die Maus-Fans! Warum bleicht ein T-Shirt aus, ein Schmetterling aber nicht? Forscherinnen und Forscher der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität tun sich zusammen, um die ewige Farbe zu entschlüsseln und nachzubauen. Bei uns im panOPTICUM zeigen sie, was sie herau...

On July 18th, we had our SAOT Innovation Day 2024. With both two career insights and two research insights, our Doctoral Candidates had the chance to see beyond their own disciplines: Simone Gaffling, SAOT alumna, gave insights into the challenges of developing custom made optical inspection...