Head of the Chair

Prof Juergen Czarske studied electrical engineering and physics. He received his PhD in 1995 and the Venia Legendi in 2003 from Leibniz University. From 1986 to 1991 he was supported by a scholarship from Siemens AG and worked in their research and development laboratories in Munich. From 1991 to 1996 he was assistant to the professor at Leibniz University. From 1995 to 2004 he was a postdoc responsible for the development of measurement technology and head of department at the Laser Center Hannover (LZH e.V.). From 1996 to 2001 he conducted research as a guest scientist in Japan (NTT) and the USA (MIT, Bell Labs, Stanford, Virginia Tech, NASA, CalTech). He has been a C4 professor at the TU Dresden since 2004. Prof. Czarske is the director of the Institute for Circuits and Systems since January 2016. He is director of the BIOLAS center since 2019 and the group “few-mode fiber communication systems” with topics physical layer security, digitally programmed spatial division multiplexing and quantum communication with entangled photons since 2023. His awards include the AHMT Measurement Technology Prize in 1996 (Munich), an international Berthold Leibenger Innovation Prize in 2008 (Stuttgart), a Reinhart Koselleck Project from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2014 (Bonn), and the 2019 Joseph Fraunhofer Prize and the Robert M. Burley Prize from the Optical Society (OPTICA/OSA, Washington DC) to recognize research achievements in optical engineering with commercialization and research breakthroughs with impact. Prof. Czarske is co-editor of the Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, elected member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, the Scientific Society for Laser Technology (WLT) and was board member of the German Society for Applied Optics (DGaO) and is advisor of German Association of Lasers Anemometry (GALA) and to the Student Chapter Dresden of the SPIE (Washington) and OPTICA (Washington DC). Prof. Czarske has delivered more than 1000 lectures and papers, including about 240 articles in peer-reviewed journals, over 150 invited lectures and holds over 30 patents. Prof. Czarske is Life Fellow of OSA and SPIE, Fellow of EOS, IET and IoP, and Senior Member of IEEE. Together with his employees and students, he has formed the MST laboratory into a renowned facility for computational laser systems. More than 100 scientific prizes and honors were awarded to students and employees of the chair MST/Czarske Lab.

Prof. Czarske is the inaugural recipient of the 2020 Laser Instrumentation Award from the IEEE Photonics Society and 2022 Chandra S Vikram Award in Optical Metrology of SPIE, awarded in San Diego.

CV of Prof. Dr. Juergen Czarske

 https://www.dgao.de/de/content/prof-jürgen-czarske-washington-geehrt
https://www.osa.org/en-us/history/biographies/bios/juergen_w_czarske/