Biophotonics is an emerging, highly multidisciplinary research area embracing innovative photonic tools applied to the life sciences, the environmental sciences and medicine.
Biophotonics research at Friedrich Schiller University addresses fundamental biomedical research questions - such as cellular processes, receptor mechanisms or marker screenings - and focuses on medical diagnosis and therapy (e.g. in pathology, oncology and sepsis research). Jena scientists aim to develop broadband applicable methods/techniques and optical instruments in order to gain a deeper insight into complex, various-sized biological specimens ranging from biomolecules like DNA/RNA, viruses, biological cells, tissue towards whole organs.
Research groups
- Applied Physical Chemistry & Molecular Nanotechnology
Prof. Dr. Andrey Turchanin - Biological Nanoimaging
Prof. Dr. Rainer Heintzmann - Biomolecular Photonics
Prof. Dr. Christoph Biskup - Biomimetic Signal Transduction
Jun. Prof. Dr. Alexander Schiller - Biophotonics
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Popp - Biophysics
Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinemann - Cardiovascular Physiology
Prof. Dr. Klaus Benndorf - Clinical Spectroscopic Diagnostics
Prof. Dr. Ute Neugebauer - CSCC Core facility Biophotonics
Prof. Dr. Ute Neugebauer - Experimental Anesthesiology
Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer - Experimental Neurology
Prof. Dr. Knut Holthoff - Fiber Spectroscopic Sensing
Dr. Torsten Frosch - Gastroenterological Spectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Andreas Stallmach - Imaging of Cellular Processes
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lorkowski - Material- & Biophotonics
apl. Prof. Dr. Michael Schmitt - Molecular Photonics
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek - Nanobiophotonics
PD Dr. Wolfgang Fritzsche - Nanospectroscopy
Prof. Dr. Volker Deckert - Neuroimmunology and Synaptopathy
Prof. Dr. Christian Geis - Single-Molecule Microscopy
Prof. Dr. Michael Börsch