Lasers in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (PDF)

Stefan Stübinger, PD Dr. med. dent., is a member of the Hightech Research Center of Cranio-maxillofacial Surgery, Basle, Switzerland. Prior to taking up this position in 2015, he was a member of the Competence Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine (CABMM), Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology Group, University of Zurich, where he was group leader of the Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology Group. He worked as Senior Assistant Surgeon in the Department for Oral, Cranio-maxillofacial, and Facial Plastic Surgery, Medical Center of Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He was awarded his Habilitation in 2012 and is co-founder of several MedTech start-up companies.


Florian Klämpfl, Dr.-Ing., is group manager (Medical Photonics) at the Institute of Photonic Technologies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He gained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2003 and subsequently worked at Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH. From 2009 to 2014 he was scientific assistant (Sensors, Control, Real-time Systems, and Medical Photonics) at the Institute of Photonic Technologies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He gained his doctorate in 2015 for a thesis on planning of laser irradiations by simulation-based optimization and took up his current position in the same year.

Michael Schmidt, Prof. Dr.-Ing., has been managing director at Bayerisches Laserzentrum GmbH, Erlangen, Germany since 2005. In 2009 he was appointed Ordinarius at the Institute of Photonic Technologies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Furthermore, he is president of the German Scientific Laser Society (WLT). Prof. Schmidt is a member of the Board of Directors of the Laser Institute of America (LIA) and vice chairman of the STC-E of the CIRP. He has been involved in major international projects, e. g. with Kazan University, Russia and Institute National