Karsten König

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Karsten König (* 1960 ) is a German biophysicist . He is a professor at Saarland University and holds the chair for biophotonics and laser technology .

König grew up in the GDR near Berlin and studied physics at the Universities of Rostock and Jena from 1980 and graduated in 1985 with a thesis on photodynamic cancer therapy . In 1989 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on optical cancer diagnosis and picosecond fluorescence microscopy. In the same year he fled the GDR to the west and subsequently worked as a postdoc, first at the University of Ulm and then at the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

In 1994 he returned to the University of Jena, works in various biotechnological and medical institutes and completed his habilitation in 1996 with a thesis on cell biology at the University of Jena, where he became a private lecturer in 1997. In 2001 he became director of the Center for Laser Microscopy at the Medical Faculty in Jena. From 2004 to 2008 he was head of the microsystems / laser medicine department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technology and since 2004 he has been a professor in the Faculty of Physics and Mechatronics at Saarland University.

His research focus is femtosecond laser technology in biomedicine and material processing. He is also involved in multiphoton microscopy and tomography, optical tweezers and laser-based stem cell research . In 2008 he received the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize for his development work on multiphoton tomography .

He is the founder and managing partner of JenLab GmbH and UDF GmbH.

In the GDR , König was considered a pioneer of the movement Unauthorized by Freundesland (UDF) . Together with Reinhard Tauchnitz, he was the only GDR citizen who managed to climb an eight-thousander (May 1990, Shisha Pangma ).

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credentials

  1. ↑ Karsten König speaker profile. In: 12th Workshop and Conference on Advanced Multiphoton and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Techniques (FLIM 2018). Max Born Institute, 2018, accessed on October 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Unrecognized by Freundesland. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; Retrieved July 20, 2010 .
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SURNAME King, Karsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960