Consortium coordinator: Alan SWAN
General Pedagogical coordinator: Arnaud DUBOIS
Finance Officer: Catherine SALOU
Coordinating officer: Maïké SEYCHELLES
Partner universities
The OpSciTech partners are:
Florian BOCIORT
Yvonne VAN AALST
Thomas PERTSCH, Carsten ROCKSTUHL
Claudia LANG
Kenny WEIR, Mark NEIL
Andrew WILLIAMSON
Arnaud DUBOIS
Jacques ROBERT
Maïké SEYCHELLES
Malgorzata KUJAWINSKA
Michal JOZWIK
Six leading European research and educational institutions join their forces in this Erasmus Mundus Master Course.
The programme is truly integrated, and takes advantages of the complementarities of these institutions in research and education. It has a strong research backbone and a very important international outreach. The objective of this EMM Course is to provide top quality multidisciplinary education in optics as a diffusing science and technology, to fuel the existing European R&D collaboration and strengthen efforts towards more European integration.
The partners are among the focal points of European Optical science and technology, with a strong reputation in research and education. They have been collaborating closely with each other in many ways for several years through e.g. many common research projects in EU consortia. All have extensive worldwide networks of further research partners.
The programme is supported by major industries such as Alcatel, Philips, Saint-Gobain, Thales, Zeiss or ASML.
Picture above : attendees at the "kick-off" meeting, November 18th 2006 in Paris.
From left to right:
André Campos (5), Florian Bociort (1), Malgorzata Kujawinska* (2), Jean-Michel Jonathan (5), Kenny Weir* (3), Jean-Louis Martin (5), Pierre Chavel (5), Nathalie Westbrook (5), Marc Bondiou* (5), Thomas Pertsch* (4), Diederick Rep* (1), Carsten Rocksthul (4), Erik Lagendijk (1) and Arnaud Dubois (5).
(1) TU Delft ; (2) Warsaw UT ; (3) IC London ; (4) FSU Jena (5) Paris
* "site coordinators"
Picture above: attendees at the workshop meeting, October 5th 2007 in Warsaw.
From left to right:
Marc Bondiou** (4), Florian Bociort (1), Malgorzata Kujawinska* (5), Rose Bruins (1), Babette Sluijter* (1), Maciej Bodnicki (2), Kenny Weir* (3), Nathalie Westbrook (4), Andrew Williamson (3), Maïké Seychelles (4), Mark Neil (3), Thomas Pertsch (2), Maud Grenet (4) and Michal Jowzik (5).
(1) TU Delft ; (2) FSU Jena ; (3) IC London ; (4) Paris ; (5) Warsaw UT
* "site coordinators"; ** "Consortium coordinator" (is now replaced by Alan Swan).
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (see web)
TU Delft carries out world-class, cutting-edge research to find solutions for society's present and future demands. The education TU Delft provides is internationally recognized and research-based. Research is clustered around thirteen multidisciplinary themes, such as nanotechnology, life sciences and high-tech systems. At the heart of optics research at TU Delft is the department of Imaging Science & Technology (IST) within the Faculty of Applied Sciences. Its research mission is in the field of phenomenological physics and concerns nanometer-scale lithography, ultra-high density optical microscopy and optical data storage, molecular and medical imaging and multi-dimensional image analysis and pattern recognition. The wavelength region covered in the teaching and research program of the department extends from the extreme UV spectral band to the domain of teraHertz-frequencies and focuses on the interaction of light with matter in this wide spectral region. IST has close contacts with some high-technological institutions and industries in the Netherlands and abroad. Philips Research laboratories and its Applied Technologies department, ASM-Lithography, Carl Zeiss, Thales and others have established strong research contacts with the department and highly appreciate the skills of the graduated master students of the department as future R&D employees in their companies. The department also closely collaborates with Leiden University and the medical department of Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the field of invasive and non-invasive medical imaging techniques.
Various start-up companies are active in the Delft region that have been inspired by the education and research carried out at TU Delft.
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany (see web)
The Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (FSU Jena) was founded in 1558 by Johann Friedrich I and is one of the most historic universities in Germany which is also reflected by its membership in the prestigious COIMBRA group, a network of traditional European universities (http://www.coimbra-group.eu/).
The historic significance of Jena University is marked by names like Goethe, Schiller, Leibniz, Doebereiner and Haeckel.
After the reunification of Germany, Jena University was totally restructured into 10 faculties including medicine making it the largest and only full University in the state of Thuringia. There are 4 faculties of natural science: physics and astronomy, chemistry and geoscience, biology and pharmacy, as well as mathematics and informatics.
Jena University today has nearly 20.000 students and official cooperation contracts with 38 Universities in 22 European and 10 non- European countries including China and Vietnam.
The academic focal point of Jena was and still is the University Jena. Its departments of natural science and medicine are a source of stimulation and impetus for world-class research in the region at the interphase of Life Sciences and Physics. This unique combination is also reflected by a number of projects awarded by the regional and national
Ministries of Science and Research. Currently Jena University hosts 5 multidisciplinary collaborative research centres (SFB), the most prestigious national funding instrument awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The history of optics in Jena takes root back in the 19th century. The scientific and industrial activities of the city are based on a long-standing tradition of optics research and manufacturing. In the last third of the 19th century, distinguished famous specialists such as Carl Zeiss, the entrepreneur and Ernst Abbe, the scientist, joined forces to
make the town a centre of optics, paving the way to a clever and productive combination of science and industry development. The pioneering work of Abbe, Zeiss and Schott made Jena famous and a capital of contemporary optics.
More than 8000 people work in the optics industry. Leading optics companies such as Jenoptik AG and Carl Zeiss AG have their main activities in Jena. As a consequence optics became one of the main research fields at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where today numerous groups are investigating applied and theoretical aspects of modern optics.
Besides the strong focus on optical science the research activities of the Faculty of Physics range from quantum electronics, materiel science, and theoretical physics to astronomy. The faculty is linked with non-university research institutions, namely the Institute of Physical High Technology, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics, and the Thuringian Observatory in Tautenburgh. Five of the eight institutes of the faculty have major research activities in optical science.
Imperial College, London, The United Kingdom (see web)
Imperial College London is one of the UK’s largest scientific universities. The Optics Section is that largest centre for research in classical and modern optics in the UK The Masters in Optics and Photonics is based in the Department of Physics. The department has an annual intake of over 270 undergraduate and postgraduate students, including typically
20 students on the Masters course. There is a long history of postgraduate education in optics at Imperial College London, which can be traced back more than 85 years. The current MSc was redesigned in 2000. A wide range of optics research is undertaken in the department, and staff involved in these areas contribute to the teaching and projects on the MSc. Research areas include biomedical imaging, theory of EM propagation, optical data storage, solid state lasers, fibre laser systems, fibre sensors, structured optical materials, programmable optics, adaptive optics, ultrafast lasers (attosecond lasers), high power laser systems, Bose-Einstein condensates (cold matter), laser spectroscopy, quantum optics and quantum information, laser plasma interactions, as well as areas of instrumentation in astrophysics, space and atmospheric physics. There is extensive collaboration on National, European (Framework 6) and International projects with other universities, government agencies and industry. The department has an Optical Advisory committee consisting of senior industrialists from areas of the UK optics industry. This committee meets twice a year to review developments in industry and research, and advise on postgraduate education.
Université Paris-Sud 11 and Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Paris, France
Université Paris-Sud 11 (Orsay, see web) is one of the largest multi disciplinary universities in France. Together with its neighbor institution Institut d’Optique Graduate School (Palaiseau, see web), it offers a Master’s degree in Optics, Matter and Plasmas where nearby Ecole Polytechnique (see web) also participates. By the number of Master’s degrees delivered (around 100 per year), it is a major world centre in optical science and engineering, with a concentration of laboratories in Quantum and Atom Optics, Photonic Bandgap Structures, Diffractive Optics, Solid State and Semiconductor Lasers, High Energy / Power Lasers, X ray and extreme UV Optics, Nonlinear Optics for Biology, Design, Fabrication and Characterization. Industrial partners are Thales, Alcatel, Sagem, Essilor, EADS, PSA, Renault, as well as start-ups.
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. (see web)
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) is one of the largest institutions of higher education in the Central Europe and the largest university of technology in Poland. WUT was founded in 1826, thus celebrating now its 175th anniversary. In the last two years the University won the third position among the best 75 Polish Universities and the first place among the 20 of universities of technology. WUT employs over 2500 academic teachers / researches. More than 30.000 students at different levels (undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate) study at WUT. WUT has 16 faculties and three of them includes strong teams working directly in optics and photonics (Mechatronics (MWUT), Physics (FWUT), Electronics and Information Technology Faculties (EWUT)), while many others refer to optics as to the researches/enabling tool.
The history of optical engineering education at WUT started at the Faculty of Mechatronics (MWUT) originated in 1962, while the director of Polish Optical Works prof. J. Matysiak founded Optical Engineering Division (OED). Since then over 800 specialists have been awarded MSc in optics. Many of them are now the key people in optics and photonics in Poland and abroad. Each year 20 students are getting MSc in optical engineering, while at the moment 15 students are working on their PhD in photonics. The collaborative teaching courses with EWUT and FWUT add to this pool 20 students per year gaining their degrees (MSc) in optoelectronics and applied physics.
The main teaching and research activities are: full-field, automated optical methods of testing, optical sensing (incl. photonics fibre sensors), optomechatronics, optomechanical design and technologies including MEMS, MOEMS, optical and numerical methods of image and information processing and passive/active material/nanostructures design and testing. MWUT, EWUTand FWUT laboratories (Optical Metrology Lab., Micro-optics Characterization Centre, Laser Lab., Photonics Fibre Lab. Nonlinear Optics Lab., Virtual Reality Lab., 3D/4D Measurement Centre etc.) are closely connected with graduate academic teaching and are considered as the most advanced optical laboratories in Poland and abroad (e.g.European Micro-Optics Characterization Centre). The research teams are closely connected with several European partners (through participation in EU projects) and with industrial partners in Poland and abroad (Hewlett Packard, Airbus, Zeiss, Vigo, Smarttech). Also several multidisciplinary projects, courses and trainings with severe impact from optical science and engineering are conducted at inter–faculty centres such as: Photonics Engineering Centre, Microsystems Centre, Environmental Protection Centre and Nanomaterials Centre.
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