Program 2021
Program may be subject to change.
The Photonics Days Jena 2021 will take place from September 29 to 30, 2021, as a virtual online event held in English.
The times given are all Central European Time (CET; UTC +2:00 hours).
Wednesday, 9/29/2021
#CREATE
9:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
Welcoming remarks
by Andreas Tünnermann (Director of the Fraunhofer IOF) &
by Georg Pohnert (Vice-President of Research at Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
10:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. / Lecture
Lecture series
“Photonics for future“
Lecture 1: „Photonics for Life: Medical Applications and Biophotonics“
Lecture 2: „Quantum Communications: Fundamentals, Visions, and Applications“
Lecture 3: „Multilayer Optics for EUV Lithography“
12:35 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. / Session
Q&A Session
In this Q&A session you will get the chance to meet the speakers of the Lecture 1 and 3 of our series „Photonics for future“.
They will be ready and happy to answer your questions about their presentation and research fields.
1:00 p.m. – 2:05 p.m. / Lecture
Lecture series
“Photonics for future“
Lecture 4: „The Future of Human-Machine Interaction in Optics and Photonics“
Lecture 5: „Tailored optics for space applications (made by Fraunhofer IOF over the last decade)“
2:25 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. / Session
Q&A Session
In this Q&A session you will get the chance to meet the speakers of the Lecture 2, 4, and 5 of our series „Photonics for future“.
They will be ready and happy to answer your questions about their presentation and research fields.
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. / Session
Elevator Pitches for the Hot-Stuff-Award
of Center of Excellence in Photonics
by Robert Kammel
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Keynote
Keynote lecture & Noble Talk: „A 40-year journey“ with Reinhard Genzel
(Nobel Prize winner for Physics 2020)
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. / Session
Award ceremony of the Applied Photonics Award 2021
with Andreas Tünnermann (Director of Fraunhofer IOF), Reinhard Genzel (Nobel Prize Winner), and happy winners of the Applied Photonics Award
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. / Session
Caustics and cocktails – A scientific Photonics Days cocktail session.
by Markus Selmke and Martin Cordes
6:35 p.m. – 7:35 p.m. / Session
The sound of light – Music stream from the Photon Valley Jena
with Robag Wruhme
Thursday, 9/30/2021
#CONNECT
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. / Keynote
Keynote lecture „Nanoscale Electronics and Photonics integrated on Silicon“ and talk with Heike Riel
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. / Roundtable
“Start-up best practice“
with Claudia Reinlein (ROBUST AO GmbH), Matthias Beier (SPACEOPTIX GmbH), Nam Gutzeit (eCeramix GmbH), and Sebastian Händschke (Head of Digital Innovation Hub Photonics)
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. / Roundtable
“Fail it to nail it?
Is failure an obstacle or the fastest way to succeed?“
with Andreas Tünnermann (Director of the Fraunhofer IOF), Heike Riel (IBM Research), Hanieh Fattahi (Head of research group), and Falk Eilenberger (Scientific coordinator)
4:45 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Closing remarks
by Andreas Tünnermann (Director of the Fraunhofer IOF)
Wednesday, 9/29/2021
#CREATE
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Workshop
“Scientific projects and results expressed briefly and comprehensibly.
Pitch training.“
by Anke Wilde
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. / Workshop
“Make your research visible!
Design of scientific communication tools.“
by Elisabeth Werner
10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. / Workshop
Lichtwerkstatt-Makeathon Workshop & Crafting Time
organized by Lichtwerkstatt Jena
Thursday, 9/30/2021
#CONNECT
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. / Session
“Forget about work-lifebalance. Tailor your life.
10 strategies to get it all under one roof.“
by Daniela Elsner
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. / Workshop
“Social media for networking
and career building.“
by Sophia Schneider
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. / Session
“Entrepreneurship – from research to innovation.“
by Sebastian Händschke
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. / Session
„Attracting new opportunities: How women in STEM become recognised experts and generate momentum in their careers.“
by Nicole Tschierske
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. / Presentation
Results presentation of the “Makeathon by Lichtwerkstatt Jena“
by Johannes Kretzschmar
3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. / Session
Fraunhofer Online Escape Game
“Rescue of the research results.“
4:00 p.m. – 4:20 p.m. / Session
How much Startup is in your PhD? – Discover your entrepreneurial potential with Young Entrepreneurs in Science (YES)
by Birte Seffert
Your opportunities to get in touch with companies and organizations
– The „Photonics Days Jena“ have one goal above all: Networking! Not only with the professional community, but also with attractive and potential employers from the optics and photonics industry. For this purpose we offer a virtual career fair. This is already accessible from September 20 and thus even before the actual „Photonics Days Jena“. On September 30, you can meet representatives of well-known companies live at various booths at the fair. They will inform you about their company, possible career paths, and concrete job offers.
– Starting on September 20, you can use the event platform to make appointments with the representatives for September 30, to use the opportunity for a personal interview on a 1:1 video call.
– In addition, some companies offer so-called „Corporate and career sessions“, where you can gain even more detailed insights into their corporate world.
So don’t miss out on this! Take your chance to actively start your career planning with the „Photonics Days Jena“!
Wednesday, 9/29/2021
#CREATE
Thursday, 9/30/2021
#CONNECT
8:30 a.m. – 8:50 a.m. / Virtual fair
Career fair and career programming introduction
with OPTICA (formerly OSA)
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. / Virtual fair
Career fair in cooperation with OPTICA (formerly OSA)