From research to application – innoFSPEC opens its own transfer laboratory
Innovation Center InnoFSPEC Potsdam.
Credit: ZIM, Brigitte Bailleul/ESO, Thomas Roese, AdobeStock 512705Applications of fibre-optic spectroscopy and sensor technology developed at the Potsdam Center for Innovation Competence innoFSPEC, range from cancer diagnosis to water treatment and algae growth monitoring. In order to be able to transfer the latest research results into practice even faster in the future, innoFSPEC has founded the innoFSPEC transfer laboratory together with the new transfer professorship of the University of Potsdam, Professor von Grünberg. On 21 October at 4:30 pm, an opening ceremony will be held at the Fraunhofer Conference Center in Golm. Journalists are cordially invited to a guided tour beforehand at 3:00 pm.
The federally funded Center for Innovation Competence innoFSPEC is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the University of Potsdam. “The substantial funding of innoFSPEC, provided by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has always been based on the premise of sustainability. It is therefore extremely gratifying that the transfer laboratory at the University of Potsdam has succeeded in becoming permanent, which will also benefit research at the AIP,” says Professor Martin Roth, head of innoFSPEC at AIP. Under the motto “From Molecules To Galaxies,” innoFSPEC has been conducting interdisciplinary photonics research between astrophysics and physical chemistry since 2008. In this field, it has not only built up globally recognized expertise, but has also always ensured the transfer of its developments, whether in medicine, cosmetics, food production or fine chemistry. The exchange with potential users has been promoted since 2018 by the Joint Lab OPAT within the “Innovative University Potsdam” project and will now be further expanded in the new innoFSPEC transfer lab. Here, research groups at the Faculty of Science are given the opportunity to bring their results into application and to initiate collaborations for this purpose.
The transfer laboratory is characterized by an excellent infrastructure. It includes the latest equipment, with state-of-the-art technologies worth more than 10 million euros.
“Our goal is to test, adapt and further develop fiber optic spectroscopy and sensor technology to such an extent that it can find its way into industry in a variety of ways, or can also be used in other research institutions. To this end, the transfer paths are closely linked with the basic and applied research at innoFSPEC,” says Professor Hans-Hennig von Grünberg. In addition, the transfer lab is also available to all other working groups of the faculty. The combined expertise of innoFSPEC, headed by Professor Ilko Bald and Professor Martin Roth, is intended to sustainably strengthen transfer as the third pillar alongside teaching and research at the University of Potsdam.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to the opening reception and to a laboratory tour at 3:00 pm.
You can find the complete programme at: https://innofspec.de/en/news/news-events
Registration via e-mail is possible until 19 October 2022
Date: 21.10.2022, start 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Fraunhofer Conference Centre, am Mühlenberg 12, 14476 Potsdam
Contact University of Potsdam: Dr. Anika Krause, Scientific Coordinator of innoFSPEC, +49 331 977 6217, anika.krause@uni-potsdam.de
Further information
University of Potsdam press release
innoFSPEC website
Innovation Center InnoFSPEC Potsdam.
Credit: ZIM, Brigitte Bailleul/ESO, Thomas Roese, AdobeStock 512705Applications of fibre-optic spectroscopy and sensor technology developed at the Potsdam Center for Innovation Competence innoFSPEC, range from cancer diagnosis to water treatment and algae growth monitoring. In order to be able to transfer the latest research results into practice even faster in the future, innoFSPEC has founded the innoFSPEC transfer laboratory together with the new transfer professorship of the University of Potsdam, Professor von Grünberg. On 21 October at 4:30 pm, an opening ceremony will be held at the Fraunhofer Conference Center in Golm. Journalists are cordially invited to a guided tour beforehand at 3:00 pm.
The federally funded Center for Innovation Competence innoFSPEC is a joint project of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the University of Potsdam. “The substantial funding of innoFSPEC, provided by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has always been based on the premise of sustainability. It is therefore extremely gratifying that the transfer laboratory at the University of Potsdam has succeeded in becoming permanent, which will also benefit research at the AIP,” says Professor Martin Roth, head of innoFSPEC at AIP. Under the motto “From Molecules To Galaxies,” innoFSPEC has been conducting interdisciplinary photonics research between astrophysics and physical chemistry since 2008. In this field, it has not only built up globally recognized expertise, but has also always ensured the transfer of its developments, whether in medicine, cosmetics, food production or fine chemistry. The exchange with potential users has been promoted since 2018 by the Joint Lab OPAT within the “Innovative University Potsdam” project and will now be further expanded in the new innoFSPEC transfer lab. Here, research groups at the Faculty of Science are given the opportunity to bring their results into application and to initiate collaborations for this purpose.
The transfer laboratory is characterized by an excellent infrastructure. It includes the latest equipment, with state-of-the-art technologies worth more than 10 million euros.
“Our goal is to test, adapt and further develop fiber optic spectroscopy and sensor technology to such an extent that it can find its way into industry in a variety of ways, or can also be used in other research institutions. To this end, the transfer paths are closely linked with the basic and applied research at innoFSPEC,” says Professor Hans-Hennig von Grünberg. In addition, the transfer lab is also available to all other working groups of the faculty. The combined expertise of innoFSPEC, headed by Professor Ilko Bald and Professor Martin Roth, is intended to sustainably strengthen transfer as the third pillar alongside teaching and research at the University of Potsdam.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to the opening reception and to a laboratory tour at 3:00 pm.
You can find the complete programme at: https://innofspec.de/en/news/news-events
Registration via e-mail is possible until 19 October 2022
Date: 21.10.2022, start 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Fraunhofer Conference Centre, am Mühlenberg 12, 14476 Potsdam
Contact University of Potsdam: Dr. Anika Krause, Scientific Coordinator of innoFSPEC, +49 331 977 6217, anika.krause@uni-potsdam.de
Further information
University of Potsdam press release
innoFSPEC website
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