08 - 12 December, 2024
INSELHOTEL Potsdam-Hermannswerder
Potsdam, Germany
Events
Ulrike Fuchs
asphericon, Germany
Identifying Emerging Technology Trends: Innovation and Product Development
About the Speaker
After joining asphericon in 2010 as optical designer Dr. Fuchs focused early on linking manufacturing and metrology of aspherics and freeform optics with questions in optical design. As Vice President Strategy & Innovation she now coordinates all R&D activities at asphericon as well as strategic product development.
She has already been able to register 6 patent families and is the inaugural winner of the Optica Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award. Furthermore, she has been working as an Associated Editor for Optics Express 2018 to 2024 and is the author of more than 60 publications. She holds a doctorate in physics from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In 2020, she was elected Fellow of OPTICA and serves as Director at Large at the Board of Directors of Optica from 2023 to 2025.
