Application of sensing materials and optical sensors is realized together with numerous collaboration partners. Most important collaborations are listed here:
- Synthesis and photophysics of porphyrins and related compounds
- Prof. Petr Zimcik and Prof. Veronika Novakova (Charles University in Prague, Hradec Kralove, Czech Repulic)
- Prof. Abhik Ghosh (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway)
- Application of optodes in oceanography and marine (micro)biology, particularly for investigation of ocean acidification processes, profiling, imaging in marine sediments and biofilms, and in photosynthesis studies
- Prof. Michael Kühl (Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Prof. Don Canfield, Prof. Ronnie Glud and Dr. Morten Larsen (Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
- Prof. Niels-Peter Revsbech, Dr. Emilio Garcia-Robledo and Dr. Klaus Koren (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Dr. Dirk de Beer (Microsensors group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany)
- Dr. Markus Huettel (The Florida State University, USA)
- Biological applications
- Prof. Dmitri B. Papkovsky (Department of Biochemistry, University College Cork, Ireland)
- Dr. Ruslan Dmitriev (Department of Human Structure and Repair, Universität Gent, Belgium)
- Medical applications
- Dr. Andre Schulz and Prof. Stephen Stick (University of Western Australia, Perth)
- Dr. Martin Hajnsek, Prof. Frank Sinner and Prof. Thomas Pieber (Institute of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria)
- In-house collaborations
- Prof. Bernd Nidetzky, Prof. Christian Slugovc, Prof. Gregor Trimmel, Prof. Robert Saf, Prof. Roland Fischer
- Industrial Collaborations
- Pyro Science GmbH (Germany)
