21 20 Director‘s Report Advisory Board Our Team Director‘s Report OUR TEAM The operative backbone of the Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) is a team specialized in professional scientific management. It conducts central projects concerning internationalization, digitalization of education, innovation and transfer, and recruiting campaigns in joint efforts with the regional industry partners. Furthermore, our team runs the Lichtwerkstatt Makerspace and supports the ACP board of directors. All activities are closely coordinated with ACP’s principal scientists, the University’s central institutions, funding agencies and ACP’s industrial partners. Above all, the team provides dedicated support to Abbe School of Photonics (ASP) students and scientists throughout each stage of their academic studies. Professional science management has become an indispensable key capacity of all players in the areas of research and education, particularly when striving for academic excellence on an international level. The enlarged demands and challenges for the strategic and operative steering of academic processes, both on a conceptual and a personal level, and the increased need for short-term actions lend themselves to a flexible, specialized team. With regard to this nationally and internationationally recognized development, ACP has performed a head-start by forming an operative administration and project team with interdisciplinary expertises already in 2010. Since then, ACP‘s professional science management stuctures were continuously developed and optimized to face upcoming challenges and trends. Our current staff combines the international experiences and perspectives of individuals with topical backgrounds in physics, business administration, biology, computer sciences, digitalization, academic management, marketing, communication sciences and international relations. The tasks covered by the team span the general coordination of strategic collaborative projects like, e.g., the CRC 1375 NOA, the IRTG 2675 Meta-Active, the Thuringian Innovation Center InQuoSens and the CZS Center for Quantum Photonics. Moreover, we are coordinating and developing the Master’s degree and doctoral candidates, junior scientists and guest professors of our Abbe School of Photonics and Max Planck School of Photonics, including individual counseling and career development. Further endeavors concern scientific outreach, different strategies for international marketing of our educational programs, the steering of evaluation and selection processes as well as the management of local research, IT and science communication resources, in particular with regard to the ACP research building. The team further ensures for a seamless and efficient interaction with all central administration units of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. LICHTWERKSTATT JENA – GERMANY‘S OPEN PHOTONICS MAKERSPACE Moreover, ACP is running a number of projects which are multidisciplinary and cross-linked with ACP‘s key research areas, for example in the field of open innovation management. One suche project to be highlighted is the Lichtwerkstatt Jena - Germany’s first and so-far only Open Photonics Makerspace. It was build on BMBF-support from 2017 til 2023 and has now become a substantial partner of the entrepreneur and maker scence in the Jena region. Here, citizens, researchers and many companies with an interest in optics and photonics can gain free access to state-ofthe-art technical equipment (including AR/VR, 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, microelectronics) and the necessary know-how to realize own ideas. By virtue of the Lichtwerkstatt‘s outreach and impact, many creative minds are supporting Jena‘s photonics companies to break traditional patterns of thinking, to enrich their innovation projects with inspiration and complement the resources of internal R&D departments. These open innovation processes are fueled by our Lichtwerkstatt Makerspace through various instruments such as hackathons or workshops. In addition to representatives from companies and academia, many enthusiastic students and researchers from physics, photonics, IT sciences and media management are the main Open Photonics Makerspace users. ADVISORY BOARD The Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) reinvigorated its management structure with the establishment of an advisory board, which was re-commissioned by the President of the Friedrich Schiller University lately in 2022. ACP is delighted to welcome seven renowned individuals as board members, all with the highest personal achievements in science, industry, and German society with regard to optics and photonics. The board‘s primary role is to assist the center with the development of a management strategy and vision for future success and to serve as a medium for strengthening linkages between academia, industry, government and community. Dialogue is warranted through regular assessment meetings of the ACP Advisory Board and the ACP Board of Directors. The board’s regular meetings take place in Jena every two years. Booth of the Lichtwerkstatt Makerspace at the LASER World of Photonics Fair in Munich, 2023. F.L.T.R.: Canan Gallitschke, Dr. David Zakoth, Johannes Kretzschmar, Clara Henkel, Dr. Falko Sojka. PROF. GEORG POHNERT He is Vice-President for Research and professor at the Department for Chemistry and Earth Sciences at the Friedrich Schiller University. PROF. RACHEL GRANGE After a 5-year junior professorship at Friedrich Schiller University, she has been appointed as a full Professor at the ETH Zurich. PROF. PIET SCHMIDT He is a full professor at the Leibniz University Hannover and Director of the Institute for Experimental Quantum Metrology (QUEST) at the PTB in Braunschweig. PROF. HELMUT ZACHARIAS, SPEAKER He is a full professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Münster. DR. MICHAEL KEMPE He is Head of Department for Medical Technology and Fellow of the Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen/Jena. MR. BURKHARD ZINNER He is Head of Division for Research at the Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science & Digital Society. PROF. MONIKA RITSCH-MARTE She is a full professor in the Department for Physiology and Medical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck.
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