IEM Seminar Series: From Scientific Insights to Innovations: The Fraunhofer Model
Event details
| Date | 30.09.2024 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker |
Prof. Dr. Karsten Buse, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM, Freiburg, Germany |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract
Science enables innovations. The mission of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with today 30 000 employees is to pave this path. Examples from the Fraunhofer Institute of Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg show how this works: Tailored laser light-sources revolutionize 3D metrology for industrial production via digital holography. Laser scanners with full time analysis assist to build and maintain infrastructures. Caloric heat pumps – based on periodic changes of order – may replace the more than 100-year-old compressor technology for cooling and heating. Enjoy a fresh view onto photonics and physics insights and learn about the immense relevance and business opportunities such knowledge can generate.
Bio
Karsten Buse is currently serving as the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg, Germany with about 260 employees and an annual turnover of 26 Mio. € research and development funds, thereof about 80 % acquired and 20 % base funds. He is also the speaker of five Fraunhofer-Institutes in Germany engaged in the areas of photonics and surfaces with overall 1500 employees and a total annual turnover exceeding 200 Mio. €. In parallel he serves as a professor heading the Laboratory for Optical Systems at the Department of Microsystems Engineering of the Technical Faculty at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Osnabrück in 1993 in the field of electro-optic photosensitive crystals and completed his University lecturer qualification at the same place in 1997. He was a Post-doc in the Psaltis group at the Caltech and co-founded the Ondax Inc., Monrovia CA. After 10 years as a full professor at the University in Bonn he is now active in Freiburg since 2011. His research interests are optical materials, volume holograms, nonlinear optics, whispering gallery resonators, and photonic integrated circuits. He is the author and co-author of more than 350 publications and patents.
Science enables innovations. The mission of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft with today 30 000 employees is to pave this path. Examples from the Fraunhofer Institute of Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg show how this works: Tailored laser light-sources revolutionize 3D metrology for industrial production via digital holography. Laser scanners with full time analysis assist to build and maintain infrastructures. Caloric heat pumps – based on periodic changes of order – may replace the more than 100-year-old compressor technology for cooling and heating. Enjoy a fresh view onto photonics and physics insights and learn about the immense relevance and business opportunities such knowledge can generate.
Bio
Karsten Buse is currently serving as the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM in Freiburg, Germany with about 260 employees and an annual turnover of 26 Mio. € research and development funds, thereof about 80 % acquired and 20 % base funds. He is also the speaker of five Fraunhofer-Institutes in Germany engaged in the areas of photonics and surfaces with overall 1500 employees and a total annual turnover exceeding 200 Mio. €. In parallel he serves as a professor heading the Laboratory for Optical Systems at the Department of Microsystems Engineering of the Technical Faculty at the University of Freiburg. He obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Osnabrück in 1993 in the field of electro-optic photosensitive crystals and completed his University lecturer qualification at the same place in 1997. He was a Post-doc in the Psaltis group at the Caltech and co-founded the Ondax Inc., Monrovia CA. After 10 years as a full professor at the University in Bonn he is now active in Freiburg since 2011. His research interests are optical materials, volume holograms, nonlinear optics, whispering gallery resonators, and photonic integrated circuits. He is the author and co-author of more than 350 publications and patents.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices LAPD