Juergen Czarske is Director and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-opted Professor for Physics at TU Dresden, Germany.

Prof. Czarske studied Physics and Electrical Engineering, received the Ph.D. degrees (with highest honors) in Engineering and the venia legendi, all from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University. After working 9 years at LZH e.V. (private Laser Center) Prof. Czarske joined TU Dresden in 2004. He is director of the Center BIOLAS (Biomedical Computational Laser Systems), heading the institute for systems engineering and is member of excellence cluster physics of life.

His technical activities and interests include:
- Laser metrology with holography
- Computational optics, Brillouin sensing, adaptive microscopy, digital optical phase conjugation

His service to technical community includes:
- General World Congress ICO-25-OWLS-16-Dresden-Germany with 3 Nobel laureates and participants from 55 Countries, ico25.org
- Member of the Editorial Board of journals and Program Committee ofl conferences

Honors and awards include:
2022: SPIE Chandra S Vikram Award in optical metrology, San Diego
2022: Fellow IOP
2021: Fellow IET
2021: SPIE Community Champion
2020: Laser Instrumentation Award of IEEE Photonics Society
2019: Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize of OPTICA, Washington DC
2018: Best Paper Awards, 2nd and 3rd, Imaging Congress, Orlando
2018: Member of Saxon Academy of Science
2016: Fellow EOS
2015: Fellow SPIE
2015: Fellow OSA
2015: Outstanding Paper Award: Precision Measurement, IOP
2013: Selected paper of Journal of Physics D
2013: Excellent paper, Japan Laser Society, Tokyo
2011: ASME Best Paper Award on Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation, Vancouver
2009: Best Paper Award of the international OPTO conference
2008: Berthold Leibinger Innovation award, Ditzingen
2001: Highly commended article of Measurement Science and Technology, Bristol
1996: Measurement technique prize, Munich