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We are excited to announce the launch of our new SAOT webpage designed in line with the FAU Corporate Identity. Our aim was to make the website easier to navigate and easier to find information. Feel free to contact us and let us know if we succeeded and/or what we can do better. Continue

Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Alfred Leipertz received the 2018 Yeram S. Touloukian Award by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).The Yeram S. Touloukian Award, established in 1997, is bestowed triennially to recognize outstanding technical contributions in the field of thermophysical ... Continue

„During the summer of 2017, FAU researchers and their guests from the countries bordering the Baltic Sea will forge new ideas together on the sailing ship ‘Thor Heyerdahl’. Our goal is to grow together by sharing new experiences, while strengthening interdisciplinary research on a range of specific ... Continue

The SAOT-Team of Science sets Sail presented its research at the First Open-Ship-Day. Follow their research in the Log Book. Log Book Continue

11. – 17.06.2017, Princeton, NJ For building a broader basis for future collaboration, PRISM and SAOT established the PRISM-SAOT Summer School which was first held in Princeton from the 11th to the 17th of June 2017. PRISM and SAOT are both conducting research in the fields of laser material proc... Continue

The poster contribution "Mass Diffusivities of Binary Mixtures of Normal Alkanes with Dissolved Gases" by Cédric Giraudet, Tobias Klein, Michael H. Rausch, Thomas M. Koller, and Andreas P. Fröba was awarded for the Best Poster Presentation during the VII International Conference Diffusion Fundamenta... Continue

As part of an international collaboration with Universities in Trento and Jena, SAOT Member Martin Wimmer and coworkers observed topology effects in an optical fiber system. As the researchers reported in Nature Physics wave packets moving through a fiber network are influenced by its topology expre... Continue

Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Maier managed to earn an excellent second place at the academics-competition Young Researcher Award 2016. It is an competition all over Germany, incluiding contenders from all scientific disciplines. The price which is renumerated with € 5.000 is awarded the tenth time.... Continue

The 2016 SAOT Video Competition is now open for submissions. Good luck! Continue

In 2013 Felix Tenner from the Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien won the SAOT INNOVATION AWARD. Recently one publication resulting from his innovative research idea was selected for the OSA Spotlight on Optics. Congratulations to Felix and to the research team! This is the publication: C.... Continue