Impressions
Here you will find various impressions of the activities of our work area:
17.03.2026 Dr. med. dent. Stella Maria Margaretha Hund, doctoral defence of her dissertation "Visualization of de- and remineralization processes on dental hard tissues with optical coherence tomography - an in-vitro study", supervised by PD Dr. Julia Walther and Prof. Christian Hannig (Polyclinic for Tooth Preservation) - Congratulations on your doctorate!
17.03.2026 Dr. rer. nat. Svea Steuer, public disputation of her dissertation "Microscopic investigations of the fiber architecture of the human tympanic membrane"(AG Klinisches Sensoring und Monitoring), in the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Physics, TUD Dresden University of Technology - Congratulations on your doctorate!
17.01.-22.01.2026 SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, USA.
Our doctoral students Miriam Sasse and Christian Schmidt presented groundbreaking results from biophotonic research at Photonics West 2026 in San Francisco. At the leading SPIE BiOS conference, they presented their work on polarization-sensitive and dynamic OCT - with a focus on the precise analysis of dental hard tissue and oral tissues. Their contributions in the sessions "Polarization Sensitive OCT I" and "Dynamic Contrast OCT II" underline the high scientific relevance and innovative power of our research.
03.12.2025 Together with the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring working group, we wouldlike to take this opportunity to thank all our employees, colleagues, partners and collaborators - for your ideas, your reliability and your motivation to create something new together. We wish you a peaceful Christmas season full of warmth, joy and peace. May the holidays fill you with new impulses and strength for the coming year.
04.09.2025 Hiking day to the Kleiner Bärenstein and the Rauenstein in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group.
27.06.2025 Summer party of the Medical Theoretical Center (MTZ) of the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine of the TUD together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group.
22.06.-26.06.2025 European Conference on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) 2025 in Munich. With their presentations on polarization-sensitive OCT in the VIS and NIR range, as well as Brillouin spectroscopy and label-free nonlinear microscopy, PD Dr. Roberta Galli, Dr. Jan Rix, Johannes Reinhold and PD Dr. Julia Walther successfully presented the results of the current research projects of the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (MPH) at the ECBO 2025 conferences.
20.06.2025 Dresden Science Night 2025: Together with the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring working group, we presented pioneering optical imaging modalities for clinical diagnostics and their use in our medically motivated research projects as well as innovative constructions and 3D printing techniques for translational biomedical research to a broad audience.
07.06.-14.06.2025 SPIE Biophotonics Summer School on the Swedish island of Ven. Together with a large number of PhD candidates from international biophotonics working groups, Mr. Johannes Reinhold was able to gain insights into the application of these in the field of biomedical research in interesting lectures on optical biosensor technology with a focus on innovative methods and current technical solutions and was given the opportunity to present the research results achieved as part of his doctoral thesis.
28.05.2025 We congratulate our team on 11th place out of 47 mixed teams from the University Hospital at the 16th Rewe Team Challenge.
25.01.-30.01.2024 SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, USA. Mr. Johannes Reinhold gave his lecture "Advancing dental diagnostics with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography for early caries detection" at the BiOS Conference Polarization-Sensitive OCT: Clinical Translation and presented his poster "Elaboration of strategies for polarization-sensitive ultrahigh resolution visible light optical coherence tomography" at the BiOS poster session.
24.12.2024 Merry Christmas from the MPH department and the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring working group. At the end of this successful year, we would like to thank all employees, colleagues and collaborators for their daily commitment and motivation to realize joint projects. We wish everyone a healthy and successful start to 2025 and look forward to further exciting projects in joint cooperation.
12.11.2024 Dr. med. dent. Yuliia Gruda, doctoral defense for her dissertation "Optical coherence tomography for in vivo imaging of human oral lichen planus" supervised by PD Dr. Julia Walther and Prof. Günter Lauer (Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) - Congratulations on your doctorate!
01.10.2024 Hiking day in Saxon Switzerland on the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Weg together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group
09.08.2024 Summer party of Dresden University Medicine under the motto "Musical Night"
14.06.2024 Dresden Science Night 2024: Together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group, we presented current research and provided interesting insights into optical coherence tomography, thermography and 3D printing technology.
14.06.2024 Ms. Ronja Köhler and Ms. Stella Hund successfully presented the results of their doctorates at the annual conference of the German Society for Tooth Preservation(DGZ) and the German Society for Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomaterials e.V. (DGPro) in short presentations.
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12.06.2024 Participation in the 15th Rewe Team Challenge - Dresden's largest company run set a new record with 28,500 participants in 2024. We are delighted with the 19th place of all mixed teams from the University Hospital and congratulate all runners on their successful participation in this special team event.
16.04.2024 Dr. med. dent. Julia Grundmann, doctoral defence for her dissertation "Visualization of carious lesions with polarized and depolarized light microscopy" supervised by PD Dr. Julia Walther and Prof. Christian Hannig (Polyclinic for Dental Conservation) - Congratulations!
07.04.-10.04.2024 Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics in Fort Lauderdale, USA. PD Dr. Julia Walther gave her invited talk "Optical coherence tomography in the oral cavity" in the session "New OCT Devices" of the topical meeting"Optical coherence tomography".
05.03.2024 Dr. med. Jonathan Ziegler, doctoral defense of his dissertation "Intraoperative in-situ autofluorescence and Raman spectroscopy for the differentiation of brain tumors" supervised by PD Dr. Roberta Galli and PD Dr. Ortrud Uckermann (AB Med. Biology)- Congratulations!
27.01.-01.02.2024 SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco, USA. Ms Julia Grundmann(Poliklinik ZER) gave her presentation "Evaluating caries lesions with polarized and depolarized light techniques" at the BiOS Conference Polarized Light and Optical Angular Momentum for Biomedical Diagnostics 2024
07./08.09.2023 CRATER - Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research organized by ICTER in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Juliane Hammer(Marius Ader Group, CRTD) gave her presentation "In vivo imaging of retia regeneration in adult zebrafish using ultrahigh resolution OCT"(Michael Brand Group, CRTD) in the session 'Novel methods of eye imaging'.
24.08.2023 Hiking day in Saxon Switzerland together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group
30.06.2023 Dresden Science Night 2023: Together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group, we will provide insights into our research projects on optical coherence tomography, spectroscopy and thermography at the MTZ (Medical Theoretical Center) of the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine
23.06.2023 2nd place for the lecture "Visualization and characterization of occlusal carious lesions with optical imaging techniques in vitro" by Julia Grundmann at Young Scientists in Dentistry 2023 - a symposium for early-career researchers in dentistry in Halle (Saale)
Congratulations to Julia!
25.06.-29.06.2023 SPIE European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO) 2023 in Munich
06.06.2023 1st place of all competing running teams of the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden at the Rewe Team Challenge, Dresden
09.05.2023 Dr. med. Marius Albrecht, doctoral defense for his dissertation"In vivo optical coherence tomography of healthy human oral mucosa" supervised by PD Dr. Julia Walther and Prof. Günter Lauer (Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery) - Congratulations!
28.01.-02.02.2023 SPIE Photonics West 2023 in San Francisco, USA
01.02.2023 Meeting with Dr. Jiawen Li and Mingze Yang, Bioengineering Imaging Group at The University Adelaide, University of Adelaide, Adelaide AUS
19.12.2022 Dr. rer. nat. Jan Rix, PhD defense of his dissertation "Setup and application of a combined Brillouin-Raman system" supervised by PD Dr. Roberta Galli and Prof. Edmund Koch(AG Klinisches Sensoring und Monitoring) - Congratulations!
01.09.2022 Paddle hiking day with the AG Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring
08.07.2022 Dresden Science Night 2022: Together with the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring working group, we presented our research work at the MTZ (Medical-Theoretical Center) of the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine under the motto "Optical methods for a new view into the human body".
12-15.05.2022 Optics Seminar: "Lens Design and Simulation with Introduction to Zemax" organized by Carl Messerschmidt & Svea Steuer, M.Sc.
25.05.2022 Participation in the REWE Team Challenge as KSMPH team
15.10.2021 Hiking day in the Dresdner Heide together with the AG Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring
13-17.09.2021 EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2021, Rome, Italy
03.09.2020 Hiking day in the west of Dresden on the occasion of the farewell of our long-time employees Dr. Matthias Thümmler and Dipl.-Ing. Annette Bartels together with the Clinical Sensing and Monitoring WG
16-18.09.2019 Visit from Prof. Dr. McLaughlin, Head of Bioengineering Imaging Group at The University Adelaide and Managing Director of Miniprobes, University of Adelaide, Adelaide AUS
27.08.2019 Summer party of Dresden University Medicine "The Golden Twenties" at Messe Dresden
18.06.2019 Hiking day together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group
14.06.2019 Dresden Science Night 2019: Together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group, we presented our research work at the MTZ (Medical-Theoretical Center) of the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine under the motto "Optical methods for a new view into the human body".
29.04.-10.05.2019 Guest stay Michael Hackmann, Research Associate at OBEL (Optical+Biomedical Engineering Laboratory) at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth AUS
10/11/01/2019 Visit of Dr. Danuta Sampson and Dr. Qingyun Li, University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth AUS
22.08.2018 Hiking day in Saxon Switzerland together with the Clinical Sensoring and Monitoring working group
23/24.04.2018 Visit from Dr. Jiawen Li, Bioengineering Imaging Group at The University Adelaide and Managing Director of Miniprobes, University of Adelaide, Adelaide AUS