In addition to being a senior member of both Optica (formerly OSA) and SPIE, and Chairman of the European Optical Society’s industrial advisory committee, Fähnle has more than 25 years experience in applied research projects within both academia and industry.
From 1999 to September 2020 Fähnle worked as Senior Expert Optical Fabrication Technology at Fisba company and is co-founder and co-owner of Pandao, a company that provides software for optimising optics fabrication during the design stage.
Fähnle has authored more than 140 reviewed scientific papers and holds several patents. In 2022, he chaired the EOS conference ‘Optical System design, tolerancing and manufacturing’ in Porto, as well as the ‘Precision Optics Manufacturing’ SPIE conference in Deggendorf, Germany.
Currently, he supports research students and the next generation of engineers by serving on three PhD defence committees at the University of Huddersfield (UK) and the University of Ilmenau (Germany), and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Deggendorf in Germany.
You can find him online at linkedin.com/in/oliver-fähnle-40b86658/.
Organisation: Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)
Role: Senior Research Scientist, Photonics Systems Manufacturing group
Based: Buchs, Switzerland
Education: PhD, applied physics, applied optics, optical fabrication and testing, Technical University of Delft