Helen Waechter

Head of Development Team Optics

Helbling Technik Bern AG

Dr. Helen Waechter is leading the optics development team at Helbling and she is responsible for providing innovation and engineering services for customer projects involving optics and photonics. She has more than 19 years of experience in developing optical systems and devices for various areas including medical technology, industry, and research. Before joining Helbling in 2017, she was a postdoc at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and a senior scientist and IP & technology partnerships manager at Tiger Optics in Pennsylvania, USA. Helen Waechter is a graduate in physics and holds a PhD in laser spectroscopy from ETH Zurich.