Dr. Laura Horan is responsible for leading Product Management at Vanguard Automation, based in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has over 10 years of professional experience in the UK and in Germany, with a focus on the development of optical products and metrology for the medical, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. Laura holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University College Cork, awarded for her work investigating the applications of Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers at the Tyndall National Institute in Ireland, for which she was granted an IRCSET scholarship.