Nikos Sagias, student from University of Ioannina, Greece, spent a successful four-month Erasmus traineeship in the context of innoFSPEC at the AIP. Within the scope of his project, he reduced and evaluated data from the Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer (PMAS) at the 3.5 m telescope at Calar Alto, using the in-house developed software P3D.
photo: Genoveva Micheva
On May 8 and May 9, 2019, the entire innoFSPEC team came together for our fifth team workshop - this time dedicated to the topics EU proposal writing, joint projects and science communication. The first day started with a key note talk on "Simulation of Sunscreen Performance" held by Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzog, University of Basel and Head of Global Development UV Protection and Scientific Liaisons at BASF. This talk was followed by an in-depth and informative session with Dr. Babette Regierer, SB Science Management, Berlin. The focus of the second day was an inspiring pitch training for scientists given by Nadine Lux and Dr. Gabriele Schönherr, both from science³, Berlin. At the same time the innoFSPEC team worked on six research topics in order to foster joint projects between the groups. We are looking forward to the next workshop in order to push this further!
photo: Nabarun Polley
We look back to the successful Optics & Photonics International Exhibition (OPIE) 2019 held in Yokohama (Japan) where innoFSPEC and our start-up PDW Analytics GmbH were present together with the Economic Development Agency Brandenburg. Furthermore, innoFSPEC research group leader Dr. Roland Hass gave a talk on „Photon Density Waves and Solid-State Phantoms as optical reference for fruit produce characterization”.
OPIE is one of the largest exhibitions in Japan specialized for the photonics industrial sector. It takes place annually at the end of April and it has been regarded as the best opportunity for visitors to be here looking for trend of technologies related with their research, development and design activity.
Further info can be found here: https://www.opie.jp/en/.
photo rights: Berlin Partner
"A plasmonic fiber optic sensor for label-free and real time biosensing" - This was the title of the poster of innoFSPEC fellow Dr. Nabarun Polley at the recent APACT 19 conference in Chester/UK. With his poster in the context of this conference on "Advances in Process Analytics and Control Technology 2019" Nabarun has won the best poster award. Congratulations, Nabarun!
The APACT conference is an annual open forum for the presentation and discussion of recent scientific and engineering advances relevant to process analytics and control technologies.
photo: Natalie Kerr, CPACT
see also news here: https://cpact.com/news/2019/05/apact-19-poster-prizes-winners
Modern astronomical observations now discovered the remnant of a nova explosion whose position corresponds to a celestial phenomenon described in ancient Chinese records. The discovery thus confirms one of the oldest astronomical observations outside the solar system. The innoFSPEC research group "Multichannel Spectroscopy" has played a significant role in this discovery.
The full English press release can be accessed here. For German news on this discovery, please have a look at the BMBF-Unternehmen-Region website.
Illustration of the Nova’s position in the globular cluster M22.
Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA; Montage: F. Göttgens.