Robert Braunschweig received his MS in 1997 from the School of Advanced Processes in Electronics and Optics (ESPEO) in Orleans, France, with a Major in Lasers and Photonics and has been working in the laser industry since then. Robert has been working with ultrafast lasers and their applications for the past 17 years with positions held at High-Q Lasers (now part of MKS), Amplitude Laser and more recently B-Lasers and LASEA Inc., where he is the General Manager since 2016. Robert has co-authored several papers throughout the years, is a long time member of the LIA (as well as board member) and has co-chaired the 2017 ICALEO micro-processing conference.