Dr. Mostafa Agour received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, in 2011. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik (BIAS), Bremen. His research interests include wave-field sensing using digital holography, phase retrieval and shear interferometry, wave field manipulations, and synthesis utilizing spatial light modulators. Dr. Mostafa Agour is a Member of the Editorial Board of Optics.
Prof. Dr.
Ralf B. Bergmann studied physics in Heidelberg and Freiburg, both in Germany,
and received his doctoral degree from the University of Stuttgart in 1991 for
his work at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF),
Stuttgart, Germany, concerning crystal growth and semiconductor physics and
characterization. In 1991 he joined the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in
Sydney, Australia and returned to the MPI-FKF in 1993 where he continued his
work on thin film solar cells from UNSW and obtained his Habilitation in 1998 from
the University of Freiburg in the area of Applied Crystallography and Material Science. From 1997 on, he worked at the University of Stuttgart, at the former
Institute of Physical Electronics heading a research group on Crystalline
Silicon. In 2001, he joined the Corporate Research Centre of the Robert Bosch
Corp., Stuttgart, as head of the department of Applied Physics. From 2006 on he
headed the Physical Analysis Lab within the business unit of Automotive Electronics
of the Robert Bosch Corp. in Reutlingen, Germany. In 2008, he became a
Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Director at the Institute
of Applied Beam Technology in Bremen. His present research centers around
optical metrology and optoelectronics including nano-optics and quantum sensors.
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