Faculty News
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.
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
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.
The EMIMEP Summer School 2026 brought together students, researchers, and experts from across Europe for three inspiring days of science, international exchange, and new connections at the Abbe Center of Photonics in Jena.
The abstract submission deadline for Organic Battery Days 2026 has been extended once again. Researchers can now submit their abstracts until 10 September 2026.
The third edition of the Teaching newsletter 2026 was published on August 31.
International research team led by the University of Jena demonstrates how diverse peptides form under interstellar conditions
An international research team led by the University of Jena has published a new review study showing where tectonic forces continue to act in the Alpine region
Jena researchers decipher the metabolism of marine plankton
Once again, the group includes two trainee chemical laboratory technicians who will be learning and working at the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences over the next three and a half years
Researchers from Jena, Cambridge and Bengaluru discover a special communication pathway in social amoebae—and a possible building block on the path to complex life
