Henrik Tünnermann
Researcher AI Assisted Laser Controls at DESY
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolHenrik Tünnermann is a laser physicist-turned-entrepreneur and researcher with 11 years of experience designing and controlling high-power laser systems, now co-founding LIGHTQ while leading AI-assisted laser controls at DESY. He combines deep experimental expertise—from building Nd:YAG and fiber amplifiers to coherent pulse stacking—with advanced computational skills in Python, CUDA and TensorFlow to accelerate design, simulation and automated control. His work has repeatedly turned complex optics problems into practical, high-performance systems (e.g., 20x speedups in split-step simulations and coherent beam combining that doubled output power without degrading noise). An academic inventor and former assistant professor in Tokyo, he also mentors students and presents internationally, bridging fundamental research and deployable engineering. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, Henrik uniquely blends hands-on lab craftsmanship with machine learning–driven optimization to push free-electron and ultrafast laser performance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Self Driving Car Nanodegree, Information Technology, Self Driving Car Nanodegree, Information Technology at UdacityPhysics Ph.D., Promotion Physik, summa cum laude / with distinction, Physics Ph.D., Promotion Physik, summa cum laude / with distinction at Leibniz Universität Hannover
German, English, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
depth-camera9
wavefront9
raytracing8
simulator7
simulation7
python7
jupyter-notebook7
iso6
image-processing6
predictive5
beam5
model-predictive-control4
mpc4
self-driving-car4
autonomous-vehicles3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HTuennermann/Vehicle-Detection-and-Tracking
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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