
New managing director for Trumpf Photonic Components
Dr Thomas Harrer will be the new head of the Trumpf subsidiary in Ulm, Germany, effective December 1, 2023.

Dr Thomas Harrer will be the new head of the Trumpf subsidiary in Ulm, Germany, effective December 1, 2023.

Zebra Technologies has named Richard Hudson as its new Chief Revenue Officer

New leadership for the 7,500-person worldwide enterprise include Ron Keating and Ben Stas.

Consortium CEO becomes a general partner in the deep-tech venture capital firm PhotonVentures effective January 1, 2024.

The new commercialization director will oversee the company’s activities to drive further growth for its quantum dot materials.

Kathy Willing is appointed the new chief financial officer.

Mirjam Rösch becomes his deputy, Amily Guo now heads the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein regional group.

Professor Gianluigi Botton has been appointed as the new chief executive officer for the UK’s national synchrotron.

Head of the laser department left the corporation on September 1, 2023.

John Collier of CLF succeeds Jens Biegert of ICFO who has headed the organization since 2021.

Edmund Optics appoints Linda Fonner as chief financial officer.

Organic chemist joins manufacturer of NIR absorbing dyes and thermoplastic compounds as R&D director.

Generational transition just a few months before the family group celebrates 70th anniversary

Jerry Duque has been General Manager of Hima's North American operations since July 2023.

Jörg Kraus is the new Head of Sales Germany at the Schmersal Group. With immediate effect, he will be responsible, among other things, for the further development and implementation of the sales strategy and the optimization of sales processes.

On July 1, 2023, Sam Crossley took over as managing director of Vision Engineering. As CEO, the previous company leader Mark Curtis will focus on the strategic direction.

Expert in laser technology appointed executive vice president.

The global player in materials, networking, and laser technology, appointed Dr “YK” Chen as deputy chief technology officer (DCTO) of Coherent, reporting to CTO Dr Julie Sheridan Eng.

Edmund Optics has appointed Alexis Liagre as Sales Director EMEA

EVK and Brisort, a Taiwanese solution provider for sorting applications, have entered into a distribution partner agreement for Taiwan and China.


Dynotech Instruments, now representing the St Gallen optics company, is a distributor for the world's leading manufacturers and specializes in the laser, photonics, and semiconductor industries.

Dr Thomas Dobbertin succeeds Dr Berthold Schmidt, who becomes chief technology officer and member of the managing board of the Trumpf group.

Expert for ultrafast laser technology establishes a materials science research center at Ruhr University, Germany.

The general assembly of the AMA Association for Sensors and Measurement Technology (AMA) has elected its board for the next two years as scheduled.

Previous CEO of EMAG China and an employee for 24 years now heads the group.

Elections at the VDMA Working Group Laser and Laser Systems for Material Processing.

Supervisory board affirms Volker Blank and Kolja Haberland as Laytec’s managing board.

Richard Hogg assumes non-teaching position at Aston Institute of Photonics Technology, CTO role with III-V Epi will be unchanged.

European standards committee lasers and photonics to be headed by the Laser Components CTO.

With the new branch in the USA, AT wants to expand its network in the USA and strengthen sales and support for its customers locally.

Alexander von Humboldt Professor Malte Gather at the University of Cologne receives 2.5 million euros funding from the European Research Council (ERC) over five years.

Christian Hagenlocher succeeds retiring Rudolf Weber as department head.

Hema Electronic strengthens its team: Since the beginning of the year, Dr. Tony Albrecht responsible for hardware and software development

Yasumasa Kuboyama takes over the position of Managing Director at Instrument Systems from Tsutomu Ogasawara and, together with Dr. Markus Ehbrecht, forms the new management team of the measurement technology manufacturer.
