Prof. Juergen Czarske studied electrical engineering and physics.
He received his PhD in 1995 and the Venia Legendi in 2003 from Leibniz University.
Professional Experience:
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 an 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.
Directorships:
Prof. Czarske is the director of the Institute for Circuits and Systems since January 2016.
He is director of the BIOLAS center since 2019.
He leads the group „few-mode fiber communication systems“ with research topics including physical layer security, digitally programmed spatial division multiplexing, and quantum communication with entangled photons since 2023.
Awards and Honors:
His awards include the AHMT Measurement Technology Prize in 1996 (Munich).
He received an international Berthold Leibenger Innovation Prize in 2008 (Stuttgart).
He was awarded a Reinhart Koselleck Project from the German Research Foundation (DFG) in 2014 (Bonn).
Prof. Czarske received the 2019 Joseph Fraunhofer Prize and the Robert M. Burley Prize from the Optical Society (OPTICA/OSA, Washington DC) for research achievements in optical engineering with commercialization and research breakthroughs with impact.
Editorial and Advisory Roles:
Prof. Czarske is co-editor of the Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications.
He is an elected member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig.
He is a member of the Scientific Society for Laser Technology (WLT).
He was a board member of the German Society for Applied Optics (DGaO).
He serves as an advisor of the German Association of Lasers Anemometry (GALA) and to the Student Chapter Dresden of the SPIE (Washington) and OPTICA (Washington DC).
Research Contributions:
Prof. Czarske has delivered more than 1000 lectures and papers.
He has published about 240 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
He has given over 150 invited lectures.
He holds over 30 patents.
Fellowships and Memberships:
Prof. Czarske is a Life Fellow of OSA and SPIE.
He is a Fellow of EOS, IET, and IoP.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Laboratory Recognition:
Together with his employees and students, he has transformed 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.
