University of Göttingen receives another Alexander von Humboldt professorship

Nominated by the University of Göttingen for an Alexander von Humboldt ship: Jan Huisken. Photo: Dr Jan Juisken Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken nominated for top level research at the Cluster of Excellence MBExC The University of Göttingen was once again successful in the competition for the most highly endowed German research award: Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken, nominated by the University of Göttingen, has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. The professorship, financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is endowed with approximately five million euros over five years. Huisken will in future contribute to research at the Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging: From Molecular Machines to Networks of Excitable Cells (MBExC) in Göttingen. The physicist is a pioneer of so-called -smart and gentle- microscopy, considered a co-founder of modern light-sheet microscopy, and a world leader in the field of multiscale imaging. For his work, he has already been awarded the Gold Medal for Light Microscopy 2017 by the Royal Microscopical Society and the Lennart Nilsson Prize 2020 from the Karolinska Institutet. In recent years, Huisken has contributed significantly to the development of quantitative imaging approaches in modern biology.