Helen Wächter Fischer
Helbling Technik Bern AG
Helen Wächter, Ph.D., leads the optics development team at Helbling Technik Bern AG, where she provides innovation and engineering services for customer projects involving optics and photonics. She has more than 18 years of experience developing optical systems and devices for various sectors, including medical technology, industry, and research. Before joining Helbling in 2017, Wächter was a postdoc at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and a senior scientist and IP and technology partnerships manager at Tiger Optics in Horsham, Pa. She has a graduate degree in physics and holds a doctorate in laser spectroscopy from ETH Zürich.