André Richter

André Richter (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1995, and the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1997 and 2002, respectively, for novel work in modeling long haul fiber optical communications. In 1998, he was a Research Fellow with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA. Since 1997, he has been with the VPIphotonics Team, Berlin, Germany. He has coauthored more than 120 publications, including two book chapters. His research interests include modeling and design aspects of optical communications, fiber-optics, and integrated photonics, and in developing professional software solutions addressing these fields. He invoked an industry training program that served more than 1000 engineers and contributed to many co-funded research programs. He led international teams in application engineering, product management, research and development before being appointed as a General Manager in 2013. He is a Senior Member of OSA, and Member of VDE/ITG and SPIE. He was with several technical program committees of OFC, ACP, and Summer Topicals.