Oliver Fähnle
OST, formerly with FISBA AG
Oliver Fähnle, Ph.D., heads the photonics systems manufacturing group at OST, the University of Applied Sciences, in Buchs, Switzerland. He is co-owner of the PanDap company. He received his doctorate in optics fabrication and testing in 1998 from the Technical University Delft in the Netherlands. He has been working and teaching in the field ever since, running projects within both academia and industry. He is a senior member of Optica and SPIE and is chairman of the industrial advisory board of the European Optical Society. In addition, he has been training and teaching Japanese sword fencing, or kendo, for more than 29 years.