Oliver Faehnle received his PhD from the Technical University Delft, The Netherlands, in “Optics Fabrication and Testing” in 1998 and has been working and teaching in this field ever since, running projects within both environments: academia and industry.
Currently, he is heading the “Photonics Systems Manufacturing” group at the OST- University of Applied Sciences, Buchs, Switzerland and is co-owner of PanDao company.
He is senior member OSA, senior member SPIE and chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the European Optical Society. Besides that, he and has been training and teaching Japanese sword fencing, kendo, for more than 30 years increasing his awareness.