Dr. Lars Loetgering is a research scientist at Carl Zeiss Microscopy in Germany, Jena. He earned his PhD in Physics at Technical University Berlin, where he developed novel algorithms for computational microscopy using x-rays. Subsequently he pursued postdoctoral positions working on EUV lensless imaging at the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, Amsterdam, and at the University of Jena. His current research spans from fluorescence microscopy to numerical wave propagation, inverse design, and machine learning.