Peter Wessels

Peter Weßels studied physics at the University of Hannover (now: Leibniz Universität Hannover), Hanover, Germany, and at the H. C. Ørsted Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hannover in 2004. Since 2000, he has been with the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), Hannover, Germany, except from 2005 to 2006 when he worked in the development group of Innolight GmbH. From 2006 to 2007, he was a scientific employee for the development of regenerative amplifiers, and in 2007 Project Leader for the development of laser systems for the American gravitational wave detectors LIGO. From 2007 to 2014, he was the Head of the Single-Frequency Lasers Group. Since 2015, he has been the Head of the Solid-State Lasers Group in the Laser Development Department.