Tobias Gäbler honored with FAIRest Dataset Award 2025

Jena / June 18, 2025

Tobias Gäbler, research associate in Experimental Quantum Information at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and in the Quantum Imaging Group at Fraunhofer IOF, has been honored with the FAIRest Dataset Award 2025 for his dataset on fluorescence lifetime microscopy. The award is presented by the Thuringian Competence Center for Research Data Management (TKFDM) and was presented today as part of the FDM Days.

The FAIRest Dataset Award is presented to Thuringian researchers whose published dataset best implements the so-called "FAIR" principles. FAIR stands for: "Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable". Scientific data that has been prepared according to these principles is easy to find, accessible, easy to combine and reusable for future research work. They thus facilitate the professional exchange of ideas, findings and methods and enhance the reputation of the published study. The preparation of research data according to the FAIR principles is also mandatory in many publicly funded projects.

Tobias Gäbler receives the award for his dataset on "Benchmarking of Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement using Time-Frequency Correlated Photons". This contains the research data for the publication of the same name in the journal Methods in Microscopy. Together with the co-authors - Dr. Valerio Gili, Nitish Jain, Dr. Patrick Then, Prof. Christian Eggeling and Prof. Markus Gräfe - Tobias Gäbler has established a method for fluorescence lifetime microscopy (FLIM) using entangled light and compared its physical limits with classical FLIM microscopes. Unlike conventional FLIM methods, this method does not require pulsed lasers and is therefore particularly gentle on biological samples.

The FAIRest Dataset Award is endowed with prize money of €2,000. The prize money can be used for research data management (RDM)-related projects.

Original publications:

Tobias Bernd Gäbler, Nitish Jain, Patrick Then, Christian Eggeling, Markus Gräfe, Valerio Flavio Gili: "Benchmarking of Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement using Time-Frequency Correlated Photons", Zenodo, February 26, 2025, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14654234

www.zenodo.org/records/14848839

Tobias Bernd Gäbler, Patrick Then, Christian Eggeling, Markus Gräfe, Nitish Jain, Valerio Flavio Gili: " Benchmarking of Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement using Time-Frequency Correlated Photons", Methods in Microscopy, March 11, 2025, DOI: 10.1515/mim-2025-0001

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mim-2025-0001/html