Julius Muschaweck

JMO Illumination Optics

Julius Muschaweck, a German physicist, has been working on optical design for illumination for over 25 years. After a stay as visiting scholar at the University of Chicago with Professor Roland Winston, well known as the originator of Nonimaging Optics, for research on concentrating on sunlight, he cofounded and became CEO of OEC. OEC was a unique illumination optics research institute plus optical engineering service that pioneered tailoring freeform optics for illumination. Later, at OSRAM, the LED maker, where he held the position of senior principal key expert, the highest rank in the Siemens/OSRAM expert career, he coordinated over 100 optical designers within OSRAM worldwide. He then joined ARRI, the leading movie camera and lamp head maker, as principal optical scientist. Muschaweck now works as an independent consultant and author, providing illumination optics solutions to industry clients, teaching courses on illumination optics, and writing about the subject.

He is the author of over 25 scientific papers as well as a SPIE tutorial book, Designing Illumination Optics, and the inventor of over 50 patent applications. He also loves to go hiking and camping with his wife and their dog. You can learn more about etendue and illumination optics at his website: https://www.jmoptics.de.