Company

About us

Phaseform is a deep-tech spin-off from the Laboratory for Micro-optics at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg in Germany.

Our mission

A new era of adaptive optics

Our goal is to make AO affordable and practical, and to bring decades of cutting-edge AO research to fruition with innovative products and technologies. Phaseform aspires to become a leading adaptive optics technology company with a clear vision of continuous innovation.

Read our story — from a Freiburg research project to instruments on three continents

Our team

The people behind Phaseform

Dr. Stefan M. Weber
Dr. Stefan M. Weber
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Pouya Rajaeipour
Dr. Pouya Rajaeipour
Chief Technology Officer
Stefan Schierle, MSc.
Stefan Schierle, MSc.
Head of Manufacturing Technology
James Hook
James Hook
Chief Financial Officer (fractional)
Zohaib Khan
Zohaib Khan
Sales Representative
Sergei Klykov, MSc.
Sergei Klykov, MSc.
Software Engineering
Felix Wessels, MSc.
Felix Wessels, MSc.
Senior Development Engineer
Daniel Sauter, PhD
Daniel Sauter, PhD
Optical System Engineer
Asst. Prof. Dr. Çağlar Ataman
Asst. Prof. Dr. Çağlar Ataman
Lead Scientific Advisor
Leon Fixl, MSc.
Leon Fixl, MSc.
Manufacturing & Applications Engineer
Jan Teschner
Jan Teschner
Production & Logistics
Advisory board

Advisors & experts

Dr. Alexander Mityashin
Dr. Alexander Mityashin
Advisor – Semiconductor/AR/Photonics
Prof. Dr. Wolf Lagrèze
Prof. Dr. Wolf Lagrèze
Advisor – Ophthalmology
Dr. Roland Nitschke
Dr. Roland Nitschke
Advisor – Microscopy
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Dodt
Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Dodt
Advisor – Microscopy
Prof. Dr. Hans Zappe
Prof. Dr. Hans Zappe
Advisor – Micro-Optics
Dr. Kaustubh Banerjee
Dr. Kaustubh Banerjee
Expert – Microtechnology

We are supported by

European Innovation Council MBG Baden-Württemberg Start-up BW Pro-Tect EPIC — European Photonics Industry Consortium University of Freiburg IMTEK — Department of Microsystems Engineering

Project DeltaSTAR is funded by the European Union under the EIC Accelerator programme, grant agreement No. 101189116.

Early-stage funding and support

EXIST Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy European Social Fund for Germany Gründungsbüro der Universität Freiburg BadenCampus Senioren der Wirtschaft
Customers

In use at research institutions worldwide

Delta 7 and PHI are at work in university, hospital and institute laboratories across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.

IMTEK — Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg Freie Universität Berlin DZNE — German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Medical University of Innsbruck TU Wien Medical University of Vienna Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences EMBL Rome The University of Manchester University of Oxford KTH Royal Institute of Technology Institut Langevin — ESPCI Paris / CNRS KAUST — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Nanyang Technological University Singapore Westlake University Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen University The University of Tokyo Institute for Molecular Science, NINS Florida State University UT Southwestern Medical Center The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hôpital National de la Vision des 15-20, Paris