Chronic

• 27. 02. 2024: Our Nature Communications "Measuring sub-nanometer undulations at microsecond temporal resolution with metal- and graphene-induced energy transfer spectroscopy" is out, where we study membrane dynamics with maximum spatial and temporal resolution.
• 27. 02. 2024: Farewell to our exchange PhD student Dong-Xia Wang, who will become a postdoc at Princeton University. 
• 01. 09. 2023: Welcome to our new PhD student Ivan Gligonov from Moscow, who will work on extreme-resolution imaging for structural biology.
• 01. 08. 2023: Welcome to our new colleague Dr. Arjun Sharma, who will work on extreme-resolution co-localization imaging.
• 29. 06. 2023: Farewell to our friend and colleague Dr. Manoj Kumbhakar from Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Mumbai (India), who was visiting us for three months as a Humboldt Fellow.
• 19. 06. 2023: Check out this wonderful small video about our former colleague Arindam Ghosh in connection with the awarding of the Carl Zeiss Young Investigator Award to him!
• 15. 06. 2023: We welcome our new PhD student Florencia Perachia from Argentina. She will build a RastMin microscope for rapid single molecule tracking. Welcome in Göttingen!
• 06. 06. 2023: Welcome to Prof. Dmitrii Makarov from the University of Texas in Austin (USA), who was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Prize!
• 09. 03. 2023: We welcome our new PhD student Subharha Sarkar from IIT Mandi in India. He will build an Anti-Brownian ELectrophoretic (ABEL) trap for single molecule spectroscopy. Welcome in Göttingen!
• 01. 02. 2023: We welcome our new postdoc Dr. Samrat Basak from Ben Gurion University in Israel. He will work on combining fluorescence spectroscopy with Metal-Induced Energy Transfer (MIET). Welcome in Göttingen!
• 27. 01. 2023: Our Nano Letters "Cholesterol-Induced Nanoscale Variations in the Thickness of Phospholipid Membranes" is out, where we present sub-nanometer precision measurements of the cholesterol-induced thickness modulation of lipid bilayers with graphene-dincued energy transfer.
• 01. 01. 2023: Our colleague Dr. Nazar Oleksiievets leaves us for joining the microscopy facility of the Max Planck Institute in Dresden. We will miss him tremendously, but we wish him a perfect start in Dresden and tons of scientific success!
• 05. 09. 2022: We welcome our new exchange PhD student Dong-Xia Wang from Nankai University in China. She comes with a prestigious fellowship of the China Scholarship Council and will work in our group for 18 months. Welcome in Göttingen!
• 30. 06. 2022: Our colleague, Dr. Christoph Thiele, leaves for joining the group of Philip Kukura in Oxford. We will miss him tremendously, but we wish him a perfect start in Oxford and tons of scientific success!
• 22. 12. 2021: Our former PhD student and postdoc Arindam Ghosh has simultaneously won the Dr. Berliner and Dr. Ungewitter Dissertation Price 2021 of our Faculty, and the Carl Zeiss Award for young researchers!!! Congratulations!
• 18. 12. 2021: Last day of Soheil Mojiri in our group - he will now join, as a postdoc, the group of Jonas Ries at the EMBL in Heidelberg. We will miss him very much!
• 01. 10. 2021: We welcome our new Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, Dr. Manoj Kumar Mahata! He will research novel upconversion luminescent particles.
• 07. 09. 2021: Congratulations to our colleague Akshita Sharma for the successful defense of her PhD thesis "Leaflet dependent localization and diffusion of molecules within membranes using metal-induced energy transfer"!
• 01. 07. 2021: We welcome our new postdoc Dr. José Ignacio Gallea! He will work on super-resolution microscopy of neurons.
• 30. 06. 2021: We say farewell to our fantastic colleague Arindam Ghosh, who joins the lab of Markus Sauer in Würzburg as postdoc. We will miss him in every respect!
• 07. 06. 2021: Our Nature Protocols "Graphene- and metal-induced energy transfer for single-molecule imaging and live-cell nanoscopy with (sub)-nanometer axial resolution" is out.
• 17. 05. 2021: Congratulations to our colleague Nazar Oleksiievets for the successful defense of his PhD thesis "Advanced multiplexing techniques in single molecule localization microscopy"!
• 27. 04. 2021: We welcome our new master student Daniel Marx! He will work on optical mapping of DNA.
• 01. 03. 2021: We welcome our new PhD student Damir Sakhapov! He will work on single-molecule spectroscopy of intrinsically disordered proteins.
• 19. 02. 2021: Congratulations to our colleague Jan Christoph Thiele for the successful defense of his PhD thesis "Fluorescence lifetime single molecule localisation microscopy"!
• 01. 02. 2021: We welcome our new PhD student Niels Radmacher! He will work on Fluorescence-Lifetime Image Scanning Microscopy.
• 06. 01. 2021: I am named Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Biophysical Reports of the Biophysical Society.
• 07. 12. 2020: Steffen Mühle has won the 2020 Jan Peter Toennies Physics Prize for his PhD work! With a pretty picture :-)
• 01. 12. 2020: Congratulations to our colleague Arindam Ghosh for the successful defense of his PhD thesis "Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging: Advanced Methods and Applications in Life Sciences"!
• 27. 11. 2020: Our Nature Protocols "Doubling the resolution of a confocal spinning-disk microscope using image scanning microscopy" is out.
• 24. 11. 2020: Congratulations to our colleague Soheil Mojiri for the successful defense of his PhD thesis "Advances in enhanced multi-plane 3D imaging and image scanning microscopy"!