New country and new challenges
iola Zóka took a big step when she decided to move from Hungary to Garching in October 2020 and join the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting (CMF) as a biological-technical assistant. CMF works closely with the attoworld group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich). In a video portrait we would like to introduce her and her work.
CMF employs many scientists and assistants on the Garching campus as part of the joint research project Laser4Life (L4L), in addition to the staff in Budapest.
The L4L researchers have set the goal of using new ultrashort-pulse laser technology to detect molecules in the blood that can indicate whether an organism is healthy or suffering from cancer.
In our first employee portrait today, you will get to know more about Viola Zóka as she talks about her exciting work and experiences living in Munich and Germany, a country she is still discovering.
Welcome to Photonworld – a platform for knowledge, interesting facts and science on the topic of light. Photonworld aims to provide a basic understanding of the physics of light and its countless phenomena. From medicine, to art and physics: all topics are covered.
Photonworld originated as an initiative of the excellence cluster the Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP) and the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ).
The initiator of the project is Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz, Chair of Experimental Physics at the LMU and Director of the MPQ.
Photonworld’s Student Zone reports directly out of the PhotonLab, which is supported by the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) and the DFG Research Unit FOR 2783. At the PhotonLab, schoolteachers and students can find up-to-date information about experiments and goings-on at the lab, and plan their own visit to the laboratory.
