Internationally renowned experts
The international review committee consists of a number of independent experts. They are reviewing the contributions of the conference to assure the outstanding scientific quality of the scientific papers respectively the relevance for application of the industrial papers.
These are the members of our 2026 review committee:
International Review Committee of LANE 2026
M. Apel, Access e.V., Germany
C. Arnold, Princeton University, USA
P. Aubry, University of Paris-Saclay, France
M. Banu, University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, USA
S. Barcikowski, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
P. Bartolo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
B. Baudrit, SKZ - KFE gGmbH, Germany
J. Bergmann, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
M. Booth, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
E. Bordatchev, National Research Council Canady, Canada
D. Bourell, University of Texas at Austin, USA
M. Brandt, RMIT University, Australia
B. Chichkov, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
S. Christiansen, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS, Germany
A. Clare, University of British Columbia, USA
G. Dearden, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
I. Drstvenšek, University of Maribor, Slovenia
D. Drummer, Friedrich–Alexander Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany
J. Duflou, KU Leuven, Belgium
R. Fabbro, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
M. Farsari, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Greece
E. Ferraris, KU Leuven, Belgium
A. Fougères, Institut National d'Optique, Canada
T. Frick, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
A. Gebhardt, FH Aachen, Germany
A. Gökhan Demir, Dipartimento Di Meccanica, Italian
E. Govekar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
C. Grigoropoulos, University of California at Berkeley, United States
B. Gu, Bos Photonics, USA
C. Hagenlocher, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
D. Hand, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
T. Hausotte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
G. Hennig, Daetwyler Graphics, Switzerland
J. Hermsdorf, LZH, Abteilungsleiter Werkstoff- und Prozesstechnik, Germany
D. Herzog, TU Hamburg, Institut Industrialisierung smarter Werkstoffe, Germany
M. Hinkelmann, LZH, Gruppenleiter Optische Systeme, Germany
P. Hoffmann, ERLAS GmbH, Germany
C. Holly, RWTH Aachen - Lehrstuhl für Technologie Optischer Systeme, Germany
R. Holtz, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
F. Huber, MTU Aero Engines, Verfahrensspezialist, Germany
H. Huber, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
S. Huber, Northvolt, Germany
Y. Ito, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
A. Jesacher, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
W. Jüptner, Universität Bremen, Germany
S. Kaierle, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
A. Kaplan, Luleå University of Technology, Schweden
M. Kogel-Hollacher, Precitec Optronik GmbH, Germany
D. Kracht, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
P. Krakhmalev, Karlstad University, Schweden
J. Kruth, KU Leuven, Belgium
V. Kujanpaa, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
B. Lauwers, KU Leuven, Belgium
C. Leyens, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
L. Li, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
K. Löffler, Precitec GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
E. Lopez, Fraunhofer IWS, Germany
Y. Lu, University of Nebraska–Lincoln , USA
A. Malshe, Purdue University, USA
I. Matthews, Division Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
C. Merklein, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Germany
M. Merklein, Friedrich–Alexander Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany
J. Möller, IWS Dresden, Scientific Advisor to the Director, Germany
C. Molpeceres, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
S. Na, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
B. Neuenschwander, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
S. Nolte, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
L. Nyborg , Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Sweden
F. Oefele, BMW AG, Germany
Y. Okamoto, Nontraditional Machining Laboratory of Okayama University, Japan
S. Olschok, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
V. Onuseit, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
L. Orazi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
A. Ostendorf, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
A. Otto, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
L. Overmeyer, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
G. Pallier, Cailabs, France
F. Palm, Airbus, France
M. Pereira, UFSC , Brazil
F. Pfefferkorn, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
J. Pou, University of Vigo, Spain
B. Previtali, Politecnico Milano , Italy
R. Ramsayer, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
U. Reisgen, Aachen University RWTH, Germany
M. Rethmeier, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Germany
G. Römer, University of Twente, Netherlands
N. Sacks, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
A. Salminen, University of Turku, Finland
P. Salter, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
M. Schaper, Paderborn University, Germany
D. Schmid, AUDI AG, Germany
R. Schmitt, Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT, Germany
J. Sehrt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
B. Simonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
P. Stritt, Bosch Research, Germany
K. Sugioka, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Japan
S. Sun, Griffith University, Australia
E. Toyserkani, University of Waterloo, Canada
J. Tremel, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
B. Van Hooreweder , KU Leuven, Belgium
B. Vrancken , KU Leuven, Belgium
J. Weberpals, AUDI AG, Germany
K. Wegener, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
P. Weidinger, Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
W. Wits, University of Twente, Netherlands
P. Woizeschke, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
K. Wudy, Technical University of Munich, Germany
M. Zäh, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Z. Zalevsky, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
F. Zanger, Karlsruhe - Institutsleiter Fertigungs- und Werkstofftechnik, Germany
M. Zhong, Tsinghua University, China
D. Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
A. Ziefuß, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany