About us
Founded in 2017 and based in Munich, Germany, Blickfeld is a provider of cutting-edge LiDAR technology for autonomous mobility and IoT applications.
Intelligent machines, e.g. autonomous vehicles and smart infrastructures, need to reliably perceive their environment. The most reliable sensors for this task are LiDAR sensors which measure direct distance information in 3D. So far, these sensors have been technologically complex, large and expensive.
Blickfeld was founded with the goal to build a high performant and mass producible LiDAR sensor. The company achieved this by reinventing one of the core components of the 3D sensors as well as rethinking the setup of the device. The result is a performant, small and reliable LiDAR sensor, that, in combination with Blickfeld’s perception software, enables countless mobility, smart city, industrial and security applications.
Blickfeld’s team comprises professionals with proven expertise in optoelectronics, MEMS, software, production, HR, finance and business.
Blickfeld Team
Founders
Dr Mathias Müller
CEO
Dr Mathias Müller has already proven that he can successfully establish companies: In 2010 he founded fos4X GmbH together with Rolf Wojtech, which develops optical sensors for industrial applications, especially in the field of wind energy. With Blickfeld, he has founded his second successful start-up. Here he works as CEO. Mathias studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and electrical engineering at the Technical University in Munich, followed by a doctorate in optical metrology.
Dr sc Florian Petit
Head of Marketing, Sales & Business Development
Before founding Blickfeld, Dr sc Florian Petit worked on the control of robots as part of scientific work at the Technical University of Munich, Stanford University, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and ETH Zurich. The roboticist obtained his Ph.D. in the field of human-machine collaboration. At Blickfeld, he is responsible for marketing, sales and business development.
Rolf Wojtech
Chief Software Architect
Rolf Wojtech is the third Blickfeld founder and as Chief Software Architect he is responsible for the development of the Blickfeld software stack. Rolf studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich and founded fos4X GmbH together with Mathias Müller in 2010.
Management Team
Dr Florian Lenz
Head of Finance & HR
As Blickfeld’s CFO, Dr Florian Lenz adds his strategic view, that he acquired during 6 years of consulting of leading DAX30 companies in the industry and banking sector. He has a physics background, studied and worked at the Universities of Heidelberg, Uppsala, Sweden and Hamburg and obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Heidelberg. At Blickfeld, he is also responsible for Human Resources.
Uwe Bureick
Head of Production & Supply Chain Management
Uwe Bureick holds a degree in industrial engineering from the Hochschule Munich. He has significant experience in various management positions in IT, purchasing, logistics, production and supply chain management in industries such as laser technology, metrology, sensor systems and medical technology. At Blickfeld, he is responsible for production and supply chain management.
Dr Jan Kuypers
Head of MEMS
Dr. Jan Kuypers studied microsystems technology at the IMTEK, Germany, and received his PhD in 2007 from Tohoku University, Japan. After several management positions at Berkeley, the MEMS start-up Sand 9 and semiconductor company Qorvo, Jan has been heading the MEMS development and its productization at Blickfeld since 2018.
Dr Michael Schardt
Lead Optics
Dr Michael Schardt studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and obtained his Ph.D. on spectrometers for the mid-infrared region. During his doctorate, he developed spectroscopy solutions suitable for industrial applications. Michael brings this expertise to Blickfeld as head of the optics team.
Timor Knudsen
Lead Embedded Software
Timor Knudsen studied computer science engineering at the TU Hamburg-Harburg and has more than 10 years of experience in research and development. Before joining Blickfeld, he gained experience in various professional positions, most recently at Magna Electronics, where he led a team of FPGA developers and system architects in the field of ADAS camera systems. At Blickfeld, Timor is responsible for the embedded software team.
Dr Markus Rauscher
Head of Development
After studying electrical engineering, Dr. Markus Rauscher received his doctorate in the field of infrared spectroscopy with a focus on the application in condition monitoring. Markus joined the Blickfeld team shortly after the company’s founding in 2017 and is now head of development at Blickfeld.
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