Two Thuringian Research Awards go to the University of Jena
Research teams honoured for their work on the groundwater microbiome and precision medicine
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The University of Jena welcomes new students with a welcome ceremony for new students
More than 3,500 first-year students are starting their degree programmes—a ceremony at the Volkshaus featuring awards for outstanding academic achievement and community involvement
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How sustainable is a material that doesn’t even exist yet?
International research team demonstrates how AI can take potential environmental impacts into account even at the stage of searching for new materials
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From "Physics under Fascism" to a Saturday lecture especially for children
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy and the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences are once again organising a series of lectures aimed at a general audience – the series begins on 24 October
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Organic Battery Days 2026 held in Jena (Germany)
From 5-7 October, almost 170 international researchers came to Jena (Germany) to join the Organic Battery Days 2026 (OBD2026) hosted by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU Jena) in cooperation with the Helmholtz Institute HIPOLE Jena
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The Faculty Report 2022–24 has been published
Report provides an insight into research and teaching at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences
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»We are a University of Excellence«
Friedrich Schiller University Jena awarded University of Excellence status
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From NASA to Jena: A student’s journey from photonics research to entrepreneurship
From Caltech and NASA to the Abbe School of Photonics and his own space-tech company: Master’s student Tanmay Gupta has followed an unusually international path through science, engineering and industry. In Jena, he has found an environment where photonics research and entrepreneurship come together. His story was recently featured by ZEIT Germany.
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New method reveals how molecular switches are influenced by their neighbours
Researchers at the University of Jena and the Helmholtz Centre Berlin are using magnetic-field-dependent THz EPR spectroscopy to investigate the environment of switchable iron complexes for the first time
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jETZT: Jena tests new models for future research collaboration
The University of Jena, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, the Helmholtz Institute Jena and the Free State of Thuringia are exploring new forms of collaboration.
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