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Laura Horan

Optica Global Advanced Manufacturing Alliance 2025 at Heidelberg Instruments

Laura Horan

Vanguard Automation, Product Management Lead

About the Speaker

Laura Horan is responsible for leading Product Management at Vanguard Automation GmbH (a Mycronic company), based in Karlsruhe, Germany. With over a decade of professional experience in the UK and in Germany, she has a proven track record in developing innovative optical sensors and metrology solutions for the medical, automotive, and manufacturing industries. Laura received her PhD 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. She has authored several scientific papers and holds patents in optical sensors and metrology.

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