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Julius Muschweck

a physicist, is the owner and CEO of his company, JMO. After receiving his M.Sc. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 1989 and a stay as Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, he cofounded and ran OEC, a unique combination of optical engineering service and pioneering freeform optics research institute. In 2006, he moved on to OSRAM, where he became Senior Principal Key Expert for Optical Design, and in 2013 joined ARRI, the maker of professional movie cameras and lamp heads, as Principal Optical Scientist. In 2017, Julius started his Illumination Optics company JMO. Julius authored over 25 scientific papers and is the inventor of over 50 patents. LinkedIn profile, List of publications

Henning Rehn

a physicist, graduated from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena 1991 and received a Dr. rer. nat. in Applied Optics there in 1995. After some years as a post doc scientist he started an industrial career at Carl Zeiss, Jena developing some of the early data projectors. In 2001, he moved to OSRAM for projector lamp development. Later, he also worked as a group leader in pre-development and LED based specialty products. In 2013, he became Principal Key Expert for optical design. In 2018, he moved to Switzerland to join FISBA and became a team leader of the optical design group. As he is currently employed, all writing, teachning and website activities are kind of a hobby. Henning authored over 40 scientific papers and about 50 patents. In 2024 he was elected as a member of the board of the German Society of Applied Optics (DGaO). LinkedIn profile, List of publications

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