Five of the 15 research groups at MPL are led by women: Quantum Radiation (Maria Chekhova), Femtosecond Fieldoscopy (Hanieh Fattahi), Non-Hermitian Topological Phenomena (Flore Kunst), Quantum Optoacoustics (Birgit Stiller) and Molecular Biophysics & Living matter (Katja Zieske).