Jochen Arlt

Jochen Arlt is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the Physics of Living Matter and Soft Matter Physics, with an emphasis on developing optical methods and instrumentation to study biological and soft condensed matter systems. He is also involved in the management of the COSMIC centre and the Soft Condensed Matter group. His work includes the study of active particles, particularly motile bacteria, and the application of advanced imaging techniques such as fluorescence lifetime imaging and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy.

Jochen Arlt is a researcher at The University of Edinburgh, specializing in Soft Matter, Biophotonics, and Biophysics. His work focuses on the manipulation and control of microscopic particles using light, including the generation of high-order Bessel and Laguerre-Gaussian beams for optical trapping and micromanipulation. He has explored applications in atomic physics, such as toroidal optical dipole traps for Bose-Einstein condensates, and has investigated biological systems, including the behavior of bacteria and conidial anastomosis tubes in Neurospora crassa. His research bridges optical physics with biological and materials science, emphasizing the interaction of light with matter at the micro- and nanoscale.