Juergen Popp PhD

Professor Popp studied chemistry at the Universities of Erlangen and Wuerzburg. After his PhD in Chemistry, he joined Yale University for postdoctoral work. He subsequently returned to Wuerzburg University where he finished his habilitation in 2002. Since 2002 he holds a chair for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena. Furthermore, since 2006, he is the Scientific Director of the Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena. His research interests are mainly concerned with biophotonics. In particular, the development and application of innovative Raman techniques for biomedical diagnostics as well as environmental and food analysis. He has published more than 400 journal papers and is a fellow of SAS and SPIE. In 2012 he received an honorary doctor’s degree at Babes- Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania and in 2013 was awarded by the Robert Kellner Lecture.