Impressions of the EMIMEO Summer School 2024 in Jena.
A number of scholarships via the European EMIMEP program offer an alternative route into our M.Sc. Photonics program.
Impressions of the EMIMEO Summer School 2024 in Jena.
Image: Canan Gallitschke

Abbe School of Photonics

Upcoming events at ASP and partners

  1. Different career paths
    Illustration: Melissa Fiebig
    Career Days 2025
    • Workshop

    A broad variety of workshops, information lectures and talks supporting doctoral candidates and postdocs in preparing their next career step in academia or in industry and society.

    • online
    • Subject to registration
  2. Picture of people networking
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    Get in Touch with Industry – Networking with Alumni
    18:00 ·
    • Workshop

    Four Alumni talk about their careers in industry and society

    • presence
    • Subject to registration
  3. Students and teaching staff sit in front of the university, look at a globe projection and celebrate shaping the future.
    Illustration: KI-generiert (Midjourney)
    DIES LEGENDI – Teaching Day 2025
    11:45 ·
    • Festive event
    • Seminar
    • Workshop

    "Create and celebrate change: Future skills, innovation, and transfer in tomorrow's teaching"

    • presence
    • online
    • public
    • Subject to registration
  4. Application Documents
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    CV & Interview Mastery: Insider Tips from a Former Recruiter
    15:00 ·
    • Workshop

    Talk in presence

    • presence
    • public
    • barrier-free
    • Subject to registration
  5. Image: AdobeStock
    Scientifc Writing with LaTeX
    8:00 ·
    • Workshop

    LaTeX is the standard software for publication of scientific documents in many fields. This workshop focuses on only the use of LaTeX for creating publications (which includes theses).

    • presence
    • public
    • Subject to registration
  6. Plasmonic enhancement at two Bow-tie nanoantennas.
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    High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of fast-moving ions: towards intrinsic Doppler correction
    16:15 ·
    • Conference

    Doctoral Defense by M. Sc. Felix Kröger

    • presence
    • public
    • barrier-free
All events

Who we are

Holographic setup in the main physics lecture hall

Picture: MPSP.

The Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) offers internationalized education programs with multidisciplinary coverage in the field of optics, photonics and quantum technology. Topics range from current scientific aspects to engineering with product applications possible in major economic sectors, such as information and communication technology, medicine and health, manufacturing, and energy consumption. Enrolled students are trained for positions in the technical industry or in the world of scientific research in higher academia. Our school is part of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Students enrolled in our Master of Science in Photonics or Master of Science in Quantum Science & Technology programs are offered a distinguished education track culminating in a structured doctoral program (equivalent to Ph.D. level). Attractive scholarships are available for high-performance applicants. Likewise, students who are enrolled in a Master of Science in Physics can specialize in optics and photonics by choosing from among all elective modules offered by ASP.

What we do

Front facet of the ACP research building.

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

The Master's degree and doctoral programs are based on the profound experience in optics education which distinguishes the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The university has established optics and photonics as one of its key profile fields in education and research. ASP's education programs are embedded in the modern research environment of the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP). This interfaculty center of the FSU Jena maintains strong bonds with local research institutions, such as the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision EngineeringExternal link, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic TechnologyExternal link, and the Helmholtz Institute JenaExternal link, as well as with several prominent industrial partners.

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Seven good reasons for Jena

  • Campus by night
    Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
    Jena is a student cityExternal link

    20 % of Jena's citizens are students. They value the city’s modern infrastructure, its diverse student culture, parks and recreation areas, theaters, cinemas, shops, cafés, and restaurants!

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