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WHO WE ARE
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Dr. Benedict Diederich
Frustrated with always having to invent optical setups from scratch, and inspired by rapid prototyping tools in electronics, Benedict is trying to make optics and microscopy a standard tool for everyone. Always curious about problems and their solutions, he is the tinkerer behind optics, electronics, software and beyond.
Haoran Wang
Haoran is keen on dismantle and rebuild devices for new functions. Motivated from the open-source microscope concept, he makes efforts on design, build, trouble-shooting and standardize diverse optical microscopes and brings it to the market.
Dr. Benedict Diederich
Frustrated with always having to invent optical setups from scratch, and inspired by rapid prototyping tools in electronics, Benedict is trying to make optics and microscopy a standard tool for everyone. Always curious about problems and their solutions, he is the tinkerer behind optics, electronics, software and beyond.
Haoran Wang
Haoran is keen on dismantle and rebuild devices for new functions. Motivated from the open-source microscope concept, he makes efforts on design, build, trouble-shooting and standardize diverse optical microscopes and brings it to the market.
Sebastian Trampenau
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Christian
The realization that all electronics are essentially made of a limited set of building blocks empowers Christian to design increasingly ambitioned circuits out of curiosity. He has knowledge and just enough experience in a wide variety of fields to use them for creative problem solving – there is a high chance that any new problem is just a combination of problems seen before in one of his many, many pet projects. At openUC2, Christian is spearheading the design of electronics that are as modular and quick to use as UC2’s cube-ified optical components.
Armin
Armin joined OpenUC2 in early September, bringing 17 years of experience in project management and systems engineering. He has worked at Bosch in Reutlingen and Jenoptik in Jena, focusing on product development and mass production, particularly for the semiconductor industry. Armin is passionate about social work and is now dedicated to helping OpenUC2 bring high-quality open-source microscopes to the world.
Christian
The realization that all electronics are essentially made of a limited set of building blocks empowers Christian to design increasingly ambitioned circuits out of curiosity. He has knowledge and just enough experience in a wide variety of fields to use them for creative problem solving – there is a high chance that any new problem is just a combination of problems seen before in one of his many, many pet projects. At openUC2, Christian is spearheading the design of electronics that are as modular and quick to use as UC2’s cube-ified optical components.
Armin
Armin joined OpenUC2 in early September, bringing 17 years of experience in project management and systems engineering. He has worked at Bosch in Reutlingen and Jenoptik in Jena, focusing on product development and mass production, particularly for the semiconductor industry. Armin is passionate about social work and is now dedicated to helping OpenUC2 bring high-quality open-source microscopes to the world.
Jens
Christine
Christine is coming soon 🙂
Jens
Christine
Christine is coming soon 🙂
Ethan
Computers were a mistake, and at the same time we rely on them to help us do important work. Because Ethan is familiar with how painful software can be – including a nontrivial amount of software which Ethan had previously inflicted upon themselves – now they take responsibility for developing and maintaining openUC2’s open-source software systems to give you strong foundations for doing important work.
Florian
Florian believes that complex ideas become truly powerful only when they are accessible to everyone. With a background in computer science and education, he builds bridges between code, hardware, and people — from web interfaces and cloud backends to classroom experiments and documentation. At openUC2, he focuses on creating intuitive, scalable software and workflows that make open science tools easier to use, teach, and love.
Ethan
Computers were a mistake, and at the same time we rely on them to help us do important work. Because Ethan is familiar with how painful software can be – including a nontrivial amount of software which Ethan had previously inflicted upon themselves – now they take responsibility for developing and maintaining openUC2’s open-source software systems to give you strong foundations for doing important work.
Florian
Florian believes that complex ideas become truly powerful only when they are accessible to everyone. With a background in computer science and education, he builds bridges between code, hardware, and people — from web interfaces and cloud backends to classroom experiments and documentation. At openUC2, he focuses on creating intuitive, scalable software and workflows that make open science tools easier to use, teach, and love.
Our Partners
Public funding
Some of our projects are supported through public funding programmes.
RUnFAST
RUnfAST develops rapid AST to reduce antibiotic resistance.
The project aims to diagnose antimicrobial resistance from patient samples by performing sample processing, measurement and data analysis sequentially. In AP1, a standardised interface for seamless device integration is being developed. AP4 focuses on the development of an automatic Raman sample preparation system that safely transports samples between measurement stations to increase efficiency and accuracy. In AP7, a demonstrator is being built to validate the system on real patient samples in order to confirm its reliability.
Funding notice:
This project is funded through Thüringer Aufbaubank.
OptiKit
FTI-Thüringen TECHNOLOGIE
the modular platform for planning and simulating optical systems for research and teaching
With the modular platform ‘Opt2Kit’, we are developing an integrated system for the digital planning, simulation and implementation of optical setups. Users can configure and simulate optical systems without any prior knowledge and order them as real modules. The platform combines existing hardware with an AI-supported configurator, open marketplace and CAD export for 3D printing or CNC. The aim is to promote research, teaching and development in the long term through low-threshold access to optical solutions and to accelerate innovation.
Funding notice:
This project is funded through Thüringer Aufbaubank.
