Rainer Kling currently works as business unit manager for laser micro machining at Alphanov, a technology center for lasers, based in Bordeaux, France. His expertise in centered around high precision materials processing with ultrashort pulsed lasers, in particular drilling, engraving, selective ablation and surface functionalization as well as intra-volume modification of transparent materials. From 2002 -2011 he has been working at Laser Center in Hannover (LZH) where he headed the Department of Production and Systems Technology. He holds a PhD degree in Physics from the Leibniz University of Hannover. He has published around 200 papers and conference presentations. In 2020 he was awarded the SPIE fellowship for his continued scientific contributions to the laser community.