Measurement and Sensor Systems

CV of Prof. Czarske

  • Educational Background:
    • 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:
    • Since May 2026 is Prof. Czarske Visiting professor at Utsunomiya University in Japan
    • 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.