Project Details
Projekt
GSC 80: Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SOAT)
Subject Area
Production Technology
Medicine
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Medicine
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24184035
Today optics is widely regarded as one of the key technologies for this century. Many experts even anticipate that the 21st century will be the century of the photon, succeeding the 20th century as the century of the electron. Optics and optical technologies cover a wide range of applications in science and industry, e.g. in information and communication technology, in process engineering, in medicine and in energy and environmental technology. Thus optics is not only a key underpinning science and baseline technology, perhaps even more importantly it is also an enabling technology of massive significance across a broad range of societal needs. Innovations in optics are thus important not only for the subject itself but also for practically all other topics and market segments.
To exploit fully this vast potential it is of great importance to adapt the academic education to the requirements of optics and optical technologies. What makes this task challenging is the fact that optics is extremely interdisciplinary in its application fields. Physicists, biologists, physicians and engineers working in many disciplines (e.g., materials science, metrology, medicine, manufacturing technology) often use similar optical methods but without close cooperation and thus without technology transfer between the disciplines. Because of this diversity, the efficiency of research and development in optical technology is rather low and must be improved by better academic education. The postgraduate education of personally and technically highly skilled engineers and scientists in the broad area of optical technologies will achieve further progress in the development and application in this field and especially at the interfaces between the involved disciplines physics, engineering and medicine. It forms one of the strong pillars for the future potentials for scientific and technological innovations and thus for the economic competitiveness of business and society.
Providing the infrastructure and the scientific competence in all mentioned disciplines at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SOAT) is the major step to form a world leading centre for the academic education in optics and optical technologies. This is supported by a new Master programme "Advanced Optical Technologies" for highly gifted students, which has just recently been approved within the Elite Network of Bavaria.
To exploit fully this vast potential it is of great importance to adapt the academic education to the requirements of optics and optical technologies. What makes this task challenging is the fact that optics is extremely interdisciplinary in its application fields. Physicists, biologists, physicians and engineers working in many disciplines (e.g., materials science, metrology, medicine, manufacturing technology) often use similar optical methods but without close cooperation and thus without technology transfer between the disciplines. Because of this diversity, the efficiency of research and development in optical technology is rather low and must be improved by better academic education. The postgraduate education of personally and technically highly skilled engineers and scientists in the broad area of optical technologies will achieve further progress in the development and application in this field and especially at the interfaces between the involved disciplines physics, engineering and medicine. It forms one of the strong pillars for the future potentials for scientific and technological innovations and thus for the economic competitiveness of business and society.
Providing the infrastructure and the scientific competence in all mentioned disciplines at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SOAT) is the major step to form a world leading centre for the academic education in optics and optical technologies. This is supported by a new Master programme "Advanced Optical Technologies" for highly gifted students, which has just recently been approved within the Elite Network of Bavaria.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Participating Institution
Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Systeme und Bauelementetechnologie (IISB)
Abteilung Bauelemente; Bayerisches Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung e.V. (ZAE Bayern)
Standort Erlangen
Abteilung Thermosensorik und Photovoltaik; Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung; Bayerisches Laserzentrum (BLZ) GmbH; International Max Planck Research School
for Molecular Life Sciences; Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB); Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V
Abteilung Bauelemente; Bayerisches Zentrum für Angewandte Energieforschung e.V. (ZAE Bayern)
Standort Erlangen
Abteilung Thermosensorik und Photovoltaik; Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung; Bayerisches Laserzentrum (BLZ) GmbH; International Max Planck Research School
for Molecular Life Sciences; Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB); Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg e.V
Spokesperson
Professor Dr.-Ing. Michael Schmidt, since 10/2013
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Christoph J. Brabec; Professor Dr.-Ing. Antonio Delgado; Professor Dr. Lothar Frey (†); Professor Oliver Friedrich; Professor Dr.-Ing. Andreas Paul Fröba; Professor Dr.-Ing. Joachim Hornegger; Professor Dr. Willi A. Kalender; Professor Dr. Friedrich Eduard Kruse; Professor Dr.-Ing. Alfred Leipertz; Professor Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Lerch; Professor Dr. Gerd Leuchs; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Marion Merklein; Professor Dr. Georg Michelson; Professor Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Neukam; Professor Dr. Markus F. Neurath; Professor Dr. Friedrich Paulsen; Professor Dr. Ulf Peschel; Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Peukert; Professor Dr. Christoph Pflaum; Professor Dr. Philip St. J. Russell; Professor Vahid Sandoghdar, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Bernhard Schmauss; Professor Dr.-Ing. Lorenz-Peter Schmidt; Professorin Dr. Jana Zaumseil
