Optical Tweezers — Classical and AI-enhanced

Symposium organised by the CHAIR theme AI for Scientific Data Analysis.

Date: 7 October 2025 (*)
Time: 13:00-17:00
Place: PJ

(*) Note that the talk by Timo Betz will be on 8th October 10:30-11:15 in FL71

Invited Speakers:

Borja Ibarra, IMDEA nanosciencia, Spain
Timo Betz, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, University of Queensland, Australia
Javier Tello Marmolejo, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Registration:
Register here!
Deadline for registration: 1 October 2025.

Schedule:

       7 October – PJ

13:00 – 13:15 : Introduction and welcome
13:15 – 14:00 : Borja Ibarra
14:00 – 14:45 : Javier Tello Marmolejo
14:45 – 15:15 : Fika
15:15 – 16:00 : Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
16:00 – ~17 : Discussion and Networking

       8 October – FL71

10:30 – 11:15 : Timo Betz

Presentations:

Borja Ibarra: Unraveling Molecular Motor Mechanisms with Optical Tweezers
Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop: Quantum Biotechnology how and why
Javier Tello Marmolejo: Optical Levitation and Spectrophotometry
Timo Betz: Optical tweezer based intracellular microrheology reveals active forces in living cells