Founder
Andreas STINGL
President & CEO
Prof. Ferenc KRAUSZ
Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum
Physics | Garching | Germany
Prof. Christian SPIELMANN
Friedrich Schiller University | Jena | Germany
Executive Management
Dr. Christian WARMUTH
Vice President & COO
Prof. Christian SPIELMANN
Instiute of Optics and Quantumelectronics
Friedrich Schiller University
Jena | Germany
*1963 in Innsbruck | Austria
married | one child
Research Interests
Solid state lasers; generation of femtosecond laser pulses; amplification and compression of ultrashort laser pulses; time-resolved spectroscopy and nonlinear optics; interaction of intense laser; fields with matter; generation and application of coherent short wavelength radiation; generation of ultrashort hard x-ray pulses and applications for time-resolved x-ray diffraction.
Education
| 2008 ongoing | Professor - Institute of Optics and Quantumelectronics University Jena, Germany |
| 2002-2008 | Professor - Experimental Physics University Würzburg, Germany |
| 2000-2001 | Associate University Professor Technical University Vienna, Austria |
| 1993-2000 | Assistant Technical University Vienna, Austria |
| 1992-1999 | Habilitation Technical University Vienna, Austria |
| 1983-1989 | MSC (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering Vienna University of Technology, Vienna |
| 1983-1989 | Ph.D. (Dr. tech) Technical University Vienna, Austria |
Career related activites
| 2001 ongoing | Coordinator - CRAFT project UROCT (QLK6-CT-2001-70549) |
| 2001 ongoing | Member of the EUREKA initiative SAFEST Safety in femtosecond laser technology |
| 2000 ongoing | Scientific consultant GSI Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1996 ongoing | Scientific consultant FEMTOLASERS Produktions GmbH, Austria |
| 2001 | Austrian representative - OECD Global Science Forum Workshop on Compact High-Intensity Short-Pulse Lasers |
| 1995 | Co-founder - FEMTOLASERS Produktions GmbH former Stingl OEG |
Awards
| 2000 | Best Poster Award Denver X-ray Conference 2000 |
| 1998 | Fritz-Kohlrausch-Physikpreis Austrian Physical Society |
| 1997 | APART fellowship Austrian Academy of Science |
| 1996 | Travel grant Austrian Ministry of Science |
| 1996 | Best Young High Tech Entrepreneur Austrian Chamber of Commerce |
Memberships
| Member of the Optical Society of America | |
| Member of the Austrian Physical Society |