Keynote Speaker

Head of SALSA Photonics Lab,
School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof

Zsuzsanna Heiner graduated in astronomy in 2002 and in physics in 2005 from the University of Szeged, where she worked as a researcher until 2008. From 2008 to 2013, she conducted research at the Biophysical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

She completed her doctorate in physics at the University of Szeged in 2013. Since 2013, she has been conducting research as a physicist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, initially in the working group of Prof. Janina Kneipp, and since 2015 as a Julia Lermontova Fellow in Optical Microspectroscopy at the School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof (SALSA), a graduate school funded by the German Research Foundation as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments. Heiner is head of the graduate school's Photonics Lab, where she conducts research in the field of sum frequency spectroscopy.

During her studies in astronomy, Zsuzsanna Heiner discovered a total of 13 asteroids together with her colleague Krisztián Sárneczky in 2002.