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Congratulations to Dr. Ziba Akbarian

We congratulate Ziba for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Nanoscale AFM Calibration Standard Using DNA Origami Nanotechnology"!

Ziba Akbarian

Tim Seifert

Kekulé scholarship for Tim Seifert

Press release

PhD student Tim Seifert from the Institute of Applied Physics has been awarded the Kekulé Scholarship from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI). The doctoral scholarship supports highly talented young scientists in chemistry and chemistry-related subjects for two years. In addition to outstanding academic achievements within the standard period of study, the FCI requires the recipient to be working on a doctorate in a scientifically renowned research group.


Dr. Mike Stummvoll

Mike Stummvoll successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title "Construction and Calibration of a Luminescence Scanning Tunneling Microscope". Congratulations!

Mike Stummvoll

DPG Conference 2024 in Berlin

DPG Tagung Berlin 2024

Biomolecules identified at the nanoscale

Press release

For the first time, a team of scientists has been able to identify individual amino acids in a peptide, a combination of several amino acids, on the surface of a single molecule. This means that one of the basic building blocks of life can now be studied down to the nanometre level. Led by Professor Uta Schlickum from Technische Universität Braunschweig, the group in the QuantumFrontiers Cluster of Excellence developed a new measurement method, which they have published in the journal Nature Communications.


Picture of the Month: A showroom for single atoms

Press release

Anyone currently entering laboratory 005 at the LENA research center is initially a little taken aback. A large stainless steel device hangs from the ceiling. The working group “Nanoscopic Systems” is still setting up its self-constructed so-called photon scanning tunneling microscope (P-STM). Nevertheless, we were allowed to look into the heart of the microscope for the “Picture of the Month”.


Microscopy at LENA

Images of the Bruker Dimension Icon Atomic Force Microscope (3D AFM) and the Renishaw inVia confocal Raman Microscope at the research center LENA.