Status & Perspectives in Science & Education

35 34 Education Guest Professorship Program Guest Professorship Program Education GUEST PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAM The Abbe School of Photonics acquires international first-hand teaching experience by inviting internationally renowned experts in optics and photonics to lecture for a period up to three months here in Jena. The program has been established to provide our students with an overview of top-level research and to offer leading researchers the opportunity to share their work through direct contact with ACP members. The successful ASP Guest Professorship Program (including the prestigious Carl Zeiss guest professorship) has become a truly international brand. To date, ACP principal scientists and their students have benefitted from special lectures held by more than 40 distinguished experts from all over the world. Both principal scientists and students have strongly contributed to the educa- tional values of ASP on several levels, a contribution, which is going to be continued. First, many ASP guest professors give regular lectures within the M.Sc. Photonics program. Second, they share their perspective and expertise with the doctoral students, ACP principal scientists, and representatives from our industrial partners in devoted special lectures on the most current topics in their research fields. Last but not least, our guest professors continuously prove to open up an enormously inspiring source of novel ideas by fruitful and mostly long-term collaborations. Since 2006, more than 70 top-ranked optics and photonics scientists have accepted our invitation to lecture in Jena for visits up to three months. With their vast experience and their cosmopolitan background in science, ASP visiting scholars regularly offer valuable feedback on our curriculum based on their personal perspectives. Some of these impressions are given here. PROF. DR. IGOR LEDNEV STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ALBANY, USA “I find my visit to Jena most productive, intellectually stimulating and hope to develop long-term collaborations based on new contacts made here.” “I visited Jena many times and I believe Jena is a unique town not only as a special place for history of optics in Germany and the world. I believe the Abbe Center of Photonics has the largest number of enthusiastic young researchers I ever met, who will definitely drive its bright future!” PROF. YURI. S. KIVSHAR AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA “I was enthusiastic to come to Jena – a very significant connection of science, technology, and industry exists at this place which is very fruitful. I was impressed by the broad range of ideas and their integration into practice, and by the variety and level of expertise of the doctoral students here in Jena. Their abilities to assemble complex optical setups and to develop their own scientific ideas are rarely found nowadays. So I can really say the Abbe Center is a world-class operation, that’s for sure.” PROF. FEDERICO CAPASSO HARVARD SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, USA “It is really encouraging to be immersed in an atmosphere of cooperation and collaboration within optics, being exposed to a multidisciplinary effort that covers aspects of biochemistry, optical signaling, image formation, or chemical physics, at a very high level. It has been a privilege to visit this pole of optics!“ PROF. JAVIER AIZPURUA UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY ST. SEBASTIAN, SPAIN “Jena is a world-class hub for optics, and I will certainly be spreading the word back in the USA that this is a place for collaborations, visits, and student exchange.“ PROF. ANDREW BERGER UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, NY, USA “My stay at the Abbe School of Photonics has been highly rewarding and a truly exciting experience for me. Being invited to spend a sabbatical in the ‚Lichtstadt‘ during the International Year of Light has been a great honour for me!“ PROF. N. ASGER MORTENSEN UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK, SØNDERBORG, DENMARK

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