Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Friedrich Schiller University Jena was founded in 1558 as one of the oldest universities in Germany, and is member of the prestigious COIMBRA group. University of Jena is structured into ten faculties with more than 17.000 students and almost 10.000 employees. The university hosts a Graduate Academy with Graduate Schools and Research Training Groups as accredited members and cooperates with more than 200 universities and research institutions in over 50 countries. The university holds a Green Office as coordinating point for the University’s sustainability activities, signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Germany Charter of Diversity) and was again honoured with the Total E-Quality Award. Photonics research plays a major role in Uni Jena’s strategic mission, with “LIGHT” being one of JENA’s three focus areas. The research group of Prof. Staude is part of JENA’s Faculty of Physics and Astronomy and located at the Institute of Solid State Physics. It focuses on experimental research into photonic nanomaterials. The group’s expertise comprises the nanostructure design using electromagnetic solvers, their fabrication by top-down techniques, and their linear and nonlinear optical characterization.
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Isabelle Staude
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Prof. Dr. Isabelle Staude studied physics at the University of Konstanz, and subsequently received her Ph.D. degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2011. For her postdoc, she moved to the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She returned to Germany in mid-2015 to establish a junior research group on functional photonic nanostructures at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. In fall 2017, she became a junior professor at the same institution. She was promoted to full professor in spring 2020. She received an Emmy-Noether Grant from the German research Foundation as well as the Hertha Sponer Prize 2017 from the German Physical Society. Isabelle Staude is an alumna of the German Young Academy (Junge Akademie) and a Fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics.