2019 - Monthly Archive

17 December 2019

Light diagnosis directly on the patient

Many paths lead to personalized medicine. Scientists from innoFSPEC Potsdam and B CUBE Dresden make use of optical fibres and novel nanostructured materials with the aim, for example, to detect and to... read more..

18 November 2019

Professor Loock from Canada as guest scientist @innoFSPEC

In October, we welcomed Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Loock from Queen‘s University, Kingston in Ontario, for a three-months research stay funded by DAAD. We look forward to working with Hans-Peter Loock and h... read more..

24 October 2019

innoFSPEC presenting @EPIC World Photonics Technology Summit, 2019

Martin Roth was invited to give a talk on August 29, 2019, at the annual summit of EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium) in Berlin. With his presentation entitled "Astrophotonics - A New Star... read more..

22 August 2019

Moving on to industry

innoFSPEC fellow Dr. Roland Hass continues his successful career by switching to BASF in Schwarzheide, Southern Brandenburg. Beginning of August 2019, our former head of the research group „Applied An... read more..

06 August 2019

Three million euro for new methodology in personalised medicine

The Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) of TU Dresden and innoFSPEC Potsdam, both are parts of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) centers for innovation competence (ZIK) in... read more..

18 July 2019

innoFSPEC as a leading Astrophotonics Institute

The Astro2020 Decadal Survey White Paper quotes innoFSPEC as a leading Astrophotonics Institute. The Astro2020 Decadal Survey is an extensive strategy process in the U.S.A., whose goal is to ide... read more..

01 July 2019

innoFSPEC at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Faculty of Science

The Faculty of Science at University of Potsdam celebrated its 25th birthday on 27 June 2019, and innoFSPEC was highly appreciated during the ceremony. Dean Professor Helmut Elsenbeer emphasized the p... read more..

28 June 2019

Conceptual Design Review for an ultra-stable Exoplanet-Hunter-Spectrograph

On June 25/26 2019, an international team of experts, chaired by Martin Roth, were invited to review the conceptual design for an ultra-stable high resolution spectrograph at the 10.4 m Telescope GTC ... read more..

28 May 2019

Further Heisenberg fellowship and DFG grant for Claudia Pacholski

Dr. Claudia Pacholski – head of the research group Optical Materials – succeded in prolongating her Heisenberg fellowship funded by the DFG. Thus, she will continue her work on the bottom-up fabricati... read more..

24 May 2019

Kick-off for EU ATTRACT projects

3D-CANCER-SPEC is a new innoFSPEC transfer project as part of the EU ATTRACT initiative which recently started with a kick-off meeting at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. 3D-CANCER-SPEC will bring astrono... read more..

21 May 2019

Erasmus traineeship concluded

Nikos Sagias, student from University of Ioannina, Greece, spent a successful four-month Erasmus traineeship in the context of innoFSPEC at the AIP. Within the scope of his project, he reduced and eva... read more..

16 May 2019

Best talk award for Nabarun Polley

How can the innoFSPEC core technology Photon Density Wave (PDW) Spectroscopy provide added value for inline monitoring? With his talk at the Photonics 2018 conference at the Indian Institute of read more..

15 May 2019

Successful 5th team workshop

On May 8 and May 9, 2019, the entire innoFSPEC team came together for our fifth team workshop - this time dedicated to the topics EU proposal writing, joint projects and science communication. The fir... read more..

07 May 2019

innoFSPEC goes East @OPIE '19 in Japan

We look back to the successful Optics & Photonics International Exhibition (OPIE) 2019 held in Yokohama (Japan) where innoFSPEC and our start-up PDW Analytics GmbH were present together with the E... read more..

06 May 2019

Poster prize for Nabarun Polley at APACT 19 conference

"A plasmonic fiber optic sensor for label-free and real time biosensing" - This was the title of the poster of innoFSPEC fellow Dr. Nabarun Polley at the recent APACT 19 conference in Chester/UK. With read more..

02 May 2019

Multichannel Spectroscopy finds remnant of a Nova explosion observed by Chinese Astronomers in 48 BC

Modern astronomical observations now discovered the remnant of a nova explosion whose position corresponds to a celestial phenomenon described in ancient Chinese records. The discovery thus confirms o... read more..

02 May 2019

New EU transfer project on the way

From galaxy research to the fight against cancer - innoFSPEC has recently acquired funding by the European Commission for the development of pioneering technology for economy and society. The rewarded... read more..

01 April 2019

Sunscreen in the lab - Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzog from BASF as guest scientist

Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzog, Head of Global Development UV Protection & Scientific Liaisons at BASF, is currently our guest in Golm. Professor Herzog is both industry affiliate and Professor at the Uni... read more..

26 March 2019

Multichannel Spectroscopy sheds light onto the end of the Dark Age in the Universe

A team of astronomers found a nearby star-forming galaxy to emit energetic photons in a similar way to the first generation of galaxies. These first galaxies turned the Universe transparent, less than... read more..

24 March 2019

Best talk award for Thomas Schiewe

How can the innoFSPEC core technology Photon Density Wave (PDW) Spectroscopy help to improve biotech processes? With his talk in the context of the 13th interdisciplinary PhD workshop "Process analyti... read more..

24 January 2019

Another success story of Multi-Channel Spectroscopy

Our colleagues of the innoFSPEC Multi-Channel Spectroscopy group have achieved great new results with their research on stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. By telling the story of how astronomy has re... read more..

21 January 2019

innoFSPEC @ Potsdam exhibition "Science in the centre"

On 19 January 2019, there was the opening of the exhibition "Science in the centre" - 130 m of science - at the annual light event in Potsdam. 20 large-format boards illustrate the diverse and excitin... read more..

07 January 2019

We are hiring - open position as scientific coordinator @innoFSPEC

innoFSPEC is performing interdisciplinary research, linking different disciplines such as astronomy and physical chemistry. In the latter context, innoFSPEC invites applications for the position of a ... read more..