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    SPIE Honors Jürgen Popp for Bringing Biophotonics Closer to the Clinic

    Jürgen Popp has received the 2026 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award for his research into optical health technologies for medicine.
    Award in San Francisco: Prof. Laura Marcu (University of California, Davis) presents Prof. Jürgen Popp (Leibniz IPHT, University of Jena) with the SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award in San Francisco.
    Image: SPIE
  2. University of Jena improves in several subjects in THE Subject Rankings 2026

    Times Higher Education lists Friedrich Schiller University Jena in eight out of eleven disciplines—upward trend in four disciplines
    In front of the large Uni Jena letters on Ernst Abbe Platz, people can be recognized out of focus.
    Image: Christoph Worsch
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    Specific activation instead of continuous operation: How bacteria save energy and what this means for antibiotic resistances

    Researchers in the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse” at the University of Jena decipher a key mechanism of antibiotic resistance pumps
    Prof. Dr. Ute Hellmich researches in the Cluster of Excellence “Balance of the Microverse”at the University of Jena.
    Image: Anna Schroll
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    The origin of the term sustainability

    »The history behind the picture«: New publication sheds light on the term sustainability
    A forestry machine in a forest. The term sustainability originally comes from forestry.
    Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
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    An Enzyme Neutralizes Pathogens by Cleaving a Bacterial Toxin

    Research team led by Prof. Christian Hertweck discovers an enzyme that neutralizes the virulence factor malleicyprol in human pathogenic bacteria
    Scientist Ingrid Richter at work in the laboratory. As part of Christian Hertweck’s team, she was involved in experiments, data analysis, and the writing of the research paper.
    Image: Ingrid Richter/Leibnitz-HKI
  6. How can cultural assets be protected in emergencies?

    Collection managers at the University of Jena discuss with security expert Ralf Seeber
    Part of the University of Jena's collections: a permanent exhibition on Goethe's natural research can be seen in the Goethe Laboratory in the Inspector's House of the Botanical Gardens.
    Image: Nicole Nerger (University of Jena)
  7. Award for cutting-edge research in the field of photonic technologies

    Matteo Calvarese receives the Siegfried Czapski Publication Award for outstanding interdisciplinary publications
    Matteo Calvarese during the ceremony
    Image: Jena-Alliance
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    Open Position (MSc, PhD): Innovation Scout in Photonics at ACP

    Within the new JENAiNNOVATION transfer center, we are announcing a very special position for a dedicated transfer scout at the interface science-innovation-business management. This position is directly embedded in the research environment of our ACP.
    Detail of the Michelson XRTL setup in Jena.
    Image: Jari Domke
  9. Diverse life in a primeval lake

    International research group discovers species-rich fossil deposit in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile
    A view of the excavation site in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
    Image: Philippe Moisan (University of Atacama)
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    Mosses help to reduce nitrogen in the forest

    Researchers at the University of Jena are investigating the lower layers of the forest ecosystem
    Forest floor covered with moss.
    Image: Till Deilmann
  11. Unconventional in five dimensions

    Researchers from EAH Jena and the University of Jena are developing biocompatible micro-optics for high-tech endoscopes in a project funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
    Additively manufactured apple with a complex gyroid structure to demonstrate the extended possibilities of 5D printing.
    Image: Jens Bliedtner
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    Excellent and internationally visible

    University of Jena celebrates 15 years of the »Jena Centre for Soft Matter« and takes a look at future prospects
    Speakers and members of the JCSM during the 15th anniversary celebration (names below the text).
    Image: Hüseyin Cetin (Universität Jena)
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