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Professor Helmut Neumann, who is also Mentor of SAOT, has been awarded the Endoscopy Award of the German Gastroenterology Association. The award comprises a prize money of 15000€, which is the prize with the highest renumeration in this field.

The two SAOT Guest Professors Ulrik L. Andersen, Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby (Denmark), and Zeev Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan (Israel), have contributed two articles in the recent issue of Nature Photonics, Vol. 7 (2013), No. 8 - "Squeezing more out of LIGO" (Anderson) an...

During the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose, California, SAOT Doctoral Candidate Viviana Agudelo Moreno has been awarded the "Cymer Scientific Leadership Award, Best Student Paper, SPIE Advanced Lithography 2013, Optical Microlithography Conference XXVI" for her oral presentati...

Professor Marion Merklein head of the institute of Manufacturing Technology and PI of SAOT has been selected as the recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis 2013, which is the highest endowed German research award. Press release of the German research Foundation.

Professor Philip Russell one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and PI of SAOT, has been elected Vice President 2013 of the OSA. As Vice President he will become president-elect in 2014 and OSA president in 2015.

The Association "Gesundheit und Medizin in Erlangen" conferred the tribute award to Professor Reinhardt, who is member of the executive committee of SAOT. This association has been awarding the "Medical Award" annually for 12 years and for the first time -during the 15th anniversary of the associati...

In a ceremony on 8th November 2012 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences Dr.-Ing. Lars Zigan, who is SAOT-Mentor was awarded the Hermann-Appel-Prize for his doctoral thesis. He completed his research work on automotive transmissions at the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics (LTT) in 201...

In November 2nd, 2012, Professor Michelson has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the Yunnan Agricultural University of China in recognition of his significant contributions to the development of friendship relation and academic cooperation with FAU.

During the 2012 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium from 7th to 10th, October, 2012, in Dresden, Germany, the Student Paper Competition award has been presented to the SAOT doctoral researcher Lizhuo Chen.

Professor Friedrich, Chair Professor of the Institute of Medical Biotechnology and principal investigator of SAOT, became Honorary Faculty Member and Conjoint Professor of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia.