Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light covers a wide range of topics, including nonlinear optics, quantum optics, nanophotonics, photonic crystal fibres, optomechanics, quantum technologies, biophysics, and—in collaboration with the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin – links between physics and medicine. MPL was founded in 2009 and is one of the 83 institutes that make up the Max Planck Society, whose mission is to conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and the humanities.
70th birthday symposium for Gerd Leuchs has been re-scheduled to June 2021
The symposium "Light, Lasers and Quanta", scheduled to celebrate our director emeritus Gerd Leuchs' 70th birthday, had to be re-scheduled as a result...
Construction work for the Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin starts
The construction work for the new Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) will start: The construction site at the Schwabachanlage in...
Max Planck researchers develop the "ultimate cell sorter"
By combining imaging of deformed cells and artificial intelligence, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the...
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Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Florian Marquardt
Please contact:
Gesine Murphy (PA)
Email: marquardt-office@mpl.mpg.de
Phone: +49 9131 7133 401
Head of Infrastructure
Dr. Dorothe Burggraf
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Lisa Spann (PA)
Email: lisa.spann@mpl.mpg.de
Phone: +49 9131 7133 801
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