Current research topics and exciting stories, reports and interviews.

LICHTGEDANKEN

The Magazine of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Current research topics and exciting stories, reports and interviews.
Image: Marco Körner

Informative and entertaining, providing illustrative details, the magazine reports about current research findings at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, presents its people and their scientific visions. News reports, interviews, and photo galleries give you exciting insights into the world of science. The research magazine LICHTGEDANKEN addresses all curious readers beyond research and teaching, too.

Current edition

Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
Issue 12 of the magazine is about water research at the University of Jena.
The elixir of life
Why we need water and how we can protect it

Previous editions

Issue on glass as a material and glass research at the University of Jena.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
The solid liquid
Glass–our revolutionary companion
Cover of the magazine LICHTGEDANKEN issue 10.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
The imagined reality
On the legacy of Romanticism in the modern world
Experimental facility for the spectroscopic analysis of ultra-thin 2D materials.
Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)
The glow of atoms
Nonlinear optics in the nano world
Poster on the corona situation in Jena (March 2020)
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
Keep your distance!
The online magazine on the corona pandemic
Cover photo of the current issue titeled "A future without growth"
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
A future without growth
We cannot carry on as we are
Cover LICHTGEDANKEN 05
Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)
Made-to-Mesure MedicationExternal link
Packaging medicines in tailor-made nanoparticles
Lichtgedanken 04 EN
A bundle of energyExternal link
Light is more than a physical phenomenon.
cover microscopic worlds
Microscopic worldsExternal link
About the great significance of the tiniest beings
Cover Lichtgedanken edition2 / en
Time of upheavalExternal link
500 Years of Reformation
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You can find the issues of the research magazine LICHTGEDANKEN in the university facilities, in canteens, and cafeterias. If you want to receive your own issue by post, please send an e-mail with your name and address to presse@uni-jena.de. The magazine is published twice a year, in German and in English.