Prof. Dr. Jürgen POPP

Prof. Jürgen Popp is the director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, the scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and a member of the board of directors of the Abbe Center of Photonics. He is the spokesperson of the “Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research” one out of three projects that the German government has put on the national roadmap for research infrastructures. In 2016 he was awarded with the Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award. 2018 Juergen Popp won the third prize of the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis and received the Kaiser-Friedrich-Forschungspreis. In 2019 he was awarded the Ralf-Dahrendorf-Preis für den Europäischen Forschungsraum.
Research Areas

The core research focus of the group of Prof. Popp is biophotonics, i.e. the development and implementation of innovative optical/photonic methods and tools for multiscale spectroscopy and multimodal imaging together with particle- and chip-based molecular point-of-care concepts for biomedical diagnostics. In this context, these biophotonic approaches are utilized and developed according to the needs of pathology, oncology, and infection/ sepsis.