Scientific instruments company, Bruker Corp., has announced the appointment of Urban Faeh as president of its Optics Div., effective immediately. At a later date, Faeh also will be appointed managing director of Bruker Optik GmbH in Ettlingen, Germany, where he will be based. Faeh joined Bruker in 1998 as sales manager of optics in Switzerland. In 2000, he was appointed managing director of Bruker Optics Switzerland; later, he also assumed regional sales management responsibilities for Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and the UK. Prior to that, he worked for Nestle Research and Sika AG. Faeh received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Applied Sciences Winterthur and a master's degree in business and engineering from KS Kaderschule, St. Gallen. For more information, visit: www.bruker.com