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On November 4th, 2015, during the DIES ACADEMICUS, which is the annual birthday celebration event of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the Wolfgang-Finkelnburg-Preis’2015 has been conferred on Andreas Bräuer. The Award is endowed by the Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e...

"Observation of optical solitions in PT-symmetric lattices" is the title of an article by Martin Wimmer, Doctoral Candidate of SAOT, published in Nature Communications. The authors are Martin Wimmer, Alois Regensburger, Mohammad-Ali Miri, Christoph Bersch, Demetrios N. Christodoulides and Ulf Pesche...

20 Junior Researchers from the USA and UK are visiting FAU. In the context of the scholarship progamme RISE (Research Internship in Science and Education) offered by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) the junior researchers spend 12 weeks at the university. They work with doctoral candidate...

Anastasiia Solodovnyk, member of SAOT, has been awarded a 2015 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics for her potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field. She is working on the luminescent down-shifting...

A cooperative agreement between the College of Health & Human Performance, University of Florida and SAOT has been signed in February 2015. The collaboration has been initiated by Professor Oliver Friedrich, Chair Professor of the Institute of Medical Biotechnology and principal investigator ...

A really great success for the young academics of SAOT! In one ERC Starting Grant call (2014) three young academics were successfull in attracting funding for their proposals submitted to the ERC. The proposals sumbitted by Edouard Berrocal from Lund University, Sweden, who is a SAOT Guest-Profes...

Professor Philip Russell, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and PI of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) was awarded the Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis 2014 for the invention of the Photonic Crystal Fibre. More information

The International Comission for Optics conferred the ICO Prize 2014 to SAOT Visiting Professor and Awardee of the SAOT Young Researcher Award Martin Booth for his innovative and pioneering research on dynamic optical methods and new approaches to adaptive optics. Read more

The "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs, und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS)" conferred the endoscopy research award (15000€) to SAOT Junior professor Maximilian Waldner for his work on "Label-Free Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Using Multiphoton Microscopy“.

The German Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery for SAOT conferred her annual award to SAOT mentor PD Dr. Dr. Florian Stelzle for his work on Tissue-Specific Laser Surgery - Foundations and Transfer to Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.