{"id":357,"date":"2025-10-14T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/?page_id=357"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:20:36","slug":"hans-zappe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/micro-optics\/people\/hans-zappe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Zappe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1087\" height=\"1028\" src=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/Hans-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-861\" style=\"width:auto;height:350px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/Hans-2.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/Hans-2-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/Hans-2-1024x968.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/tf-imtek-mo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/453\/Hans-2-768x726.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1087px) 100vw, 1087px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"block-30c5432f-a654-4c7d-80dc-8f32fe6fcb7f\">Hans Zappe is Professor of Micro-Optics at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He is one of the internationally leading researchers in the areas of optical microsystems and micro-optical components and has made fundamental contributions to the state-of-the-art in fluidic imaging systems, tunable lenses and adaptive optics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Paris and raised in New York, Prof. Zappe earned BSc and MSc degrees at MIT in 1983 and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, all in Electrical Engineering. He worked at IBM (USA), the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Germany) and the Centre Suisse d\u2019Electronique et de Microtechnique (Switzerland), before joining the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of his extensive research activities, Prof. Zappe founded the Priority Program \u201cActive micro-optics\u201d and the Collaborative Research Center \u201cPlanar optronic systems\u201d, both funded by the German Research Foundation. Strongly dedicated to engineering education, he teaches electronics to undergraduates as well as optics and photonics to graduate students, for whom he has also authored three advanced optics textbooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Zappe has chaired a wide range of international conferences and has served on the editorial boards of numerous optics and microsystems journals. 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