Optically-Induced Nanostructures

Karsten König studied Physics at the University of Rostock and the University of Jena, Germany. In 1989, he obtained his PhD on the topic of cancer diagnosis and picosecond fluorescence lifetime microscopy from the University of Jena. After several postdoctoral fellowships and scientific positions at institutes in Germany and USA, he was appointed full professor at the Saarland University in 2004 where he is head of the Department Biophotonics and Laser Technology since 2010. During his career, he was head of the Department Microsystems/Laser Medicine at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering from 2004 to 2008, and Vice-President of the German Academic Society for Laser Technology from 2007 to 2008. He received several national and international honors and awards, among them the prestigious SPIE award. In 1999, König founded the company JenLab (www.jenlab.de) of which he became CEO in 2002. He is author of over 200 journal articles and holds more than 30 patents.

Andreas Ostendorf received his PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, in 2002. From 1995 to 2000, he was research associate and later head of the department Production & Systems at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH). In 2008, he followed a call to a full professorship at the Ruhr University Bochum where he currently holds the chair for Applied Laser Technologies. He was CEO of the LZH and founding CEO of the Network of Competence for Optics and Photonics. He is member in several scientific and advisory boards on optical, biomedical, and laser technologies and applications. Ostendorf is a fellow of SPIE and the Laser Institute of America of which he was president in 2008. Since 2008, he is coordinator of the priority program 1327 "Optically generated sub-100 nm structures for biomedical and technical applications" of the German Research Foundation. Since 2013, he is president of the German Academic Society for Laser Technology.