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​October 2022
  • Giovanni De Angelis starts his PhD with us. Welcome Giovanni!

June 2022
  • Our latest work on super-resolved diffusion of peroxisomal proteins will be featured in the cover of the next Biophysical Reports issue. Thanks again Alexey Chizhik!
December 2021
September 2021
  • Ziliang Zhao joins our group as a postdoc researcher. Welcome Ziliang!
  • Jacopo Abramo also joins our group to carry out his PhD. Welcome Jacopo!
March 2021
  • TRAIT2D is released! A Python software package to support Single Particle Tracking Experiments. It was developed by Francesco Reina and John Wigg from our group, together with our collaborators Mariia Dmitrieva, Joël Lefebvre and Jens Rittscher. You can find the preprint here.

January 2021
  • The Collaborative Research Centre PolyTarget, of which our group is part of, is featured by the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena. Check out the video here!


October 2020
  • We receive our new MINFLUX system from Abberior.
  • The new Abberior Expert Line STED microscope is installed. Featuring multicolour 3D STED and single photon counting electronics.

September 2020
  • Yashar Rouzbahani succesfully defends his Medical Photonics Master thesis Diffusion studies of different lipids on model membranes. Congratulations Yashar! He will now doing his PhD with us.

August 2020
  • The contemporary art museum Sinclair-Haus selects an image by Gaukhar Zhurgenbayeva for their What is Nature? exhibition. The image depicts a Candida albicans yeast invading a gut epithelial cell.

May 2020
  • Pablo Carravilla is featured in the Snapshots: Research at Leibniz IPHT video series. You can check the video here.
March 2020
  • Alex Seltmann, Francesco Reina and John Wigg, as part of the multidisciplinary #SimThinkAct group, participate in the WirVsVirus Hackathon of the German Federal Government, creating a web app for creative health education in the process. The app #SimThinkAct has been shortlisted in the top 10% of projects by the organisers!
  • Francesco Reina presents his results on model and cell membrane Single Particle Tracking at the Trends in Microscopy 2020 Spring School organized by the German Bioimaging society (Münsingen).
February 2020
  • Pablo Carravilla is awarded a MSCA Individual Fellowship from the European Commision.
  • Anindita Dasgupta joins our group. She will do her PhD with us. Welcome!
January 2020
  • Alex Seltmann presents his work on using Deep Learning to correct FCS measurements at QBI 2020 (Oxford).
  • Our new web page is online!