The integration of a innovative photoinduced atomic force microscopy (PiFM) into the well-developed research landscape at Leibniz IPHT should strengthen the leading position of the institute in the scientifically and economically important fields of optical health technologies and the life and environmental sciences and directly tie in with current medical and medical technology issues of infection research and therapy development, e.g. with the InfectoGnostics research campus and the Center for Sepsis Control and Care.  

The project is financed by the Free State of Thuringia under the number 2018 FGI 0023 and co-financed by European Union funds within the framework of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).