Job: Research Assistant (Doctoral/Ph.D. Candidate, m/f/d) in Computational Electrodynamics and Photonics Inverse Design for Integrated Optics - Leibniz University Hannover Hannover, Germany
. Claus Roll is a director of research and program development for OSA Europe.
In a recent article, we offered an overview of the general funding schemes in Germany, the European Union’s largest economy. We noted there that areas explicitly described as “optical technologies” received a total of €245.8 million of public funding in 2020 but that the total funding for optics and photonics is likely much larger, with much of it “hidden” in other domains like electronic systems, microsystems, nanotechnology and materials technologies.
The remaining articles in this series will drill down into funding via specific channels and agencies within that overall picture. In this story, we look at optics and photonics funding by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, or DFG) an independent research-funding organization serving all branches of science and the humanities at universities and non-university research institutions.