Dear Ingolf, That's wonderful. We are very glad you'll be joining! I’ll make sure to keep you updated as soon as there are any concrete developments regarding timing or other details. Looking forward to it. Best wishes, Stephanie On 14.07.25 18:24, Ingolf Sack wrote:

Dear Stephanie,

I am happy to accept your kind invitation. Please put me in the loop for any updates w.r.t. time etc.

Best, Ingolf

Am 14.07.2025 um 12:25 schrieb Stephanie Möllmert:

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Dear Ingolf,

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee, I have the honor to invite you to give a talk at the upcoming 9th International BioBrillouin Conference <https://www.biobrillouin.org/news>, which will take place in Berlin, at the conference venue of the Max Planck Society (Harnack-Haus <https://www.harnackhaus-berlin.mpg.de/de>) on 25–27 November 2025.

This event serves as a venue where experts and leading scientists from around the world working on Brillouin Light Scattering Spectroscopy for biological and biomedical applications meet once a year to share their latest advances, findings, and innovations in the field. In addition to two full days of invited and contributed talks, it will feature poster sessions and various social activities.

As part of our efforts to broaden our understanding of biomechanical imaging and its intersection with Brillouin light scattering, we would be delighted to include your perspective on recent advances in the field. Your pioneering research in magnetic resonance elastography, quantitative MRI, and the mechanical characterization of soft tissues has significantly advanced our ability to noninvasively probe tissue properties in both clinical and experimental settings. We believe your invited talk would be a highlight of the conference and inspire valuable discussions on the integration of complementary imaging modalities and their role in biomedical discovery and diagnostics.

Due to limited financial resources and the short-notice relocation, which has limited our ability to acquire more comprehensive sponsorship for this event (it was initially meant to happen in Harvard), we request that speakers cover their own travel and accommodation costs. If this presents a difficulty, please let us know and we can look into the potential of providing a travel stipend for cases most needed, albeit subject to availability.

We would very much look forward to meeting you in Berlin, and please let me know at your earliest convenience, but no later than July 20th, if you will be able to attend and deliver an invited talk.

All the best,

Stephanie

On behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee:

/Jochen Guck (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light & Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin, Germany)/

/Kareem Elsayad (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)/

/Robert Prevedel (European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL, Germany)/

/Francesca Palombo (Exeter University, United Kingdom)/

/Stephanie Möllmert (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany)/

/Michael Monaghan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)/

/Thorsten Hamann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)/

-- Dr. Stephanie Möllmert Research Group Leader

Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin Cell Physics Division Kussmaulallee 2 91054 Erlangen Germany Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Cell Physics Division Staudtstr. 2 91058 Erlangen Germany Phone: +49 (0) 9131 8284530 Email: stephanie.moellmert@mpl.mpg.de Homepage: www.gucklab.com