Experience

LightCode Photonics

• Estonia
• Automation Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead of Perception Systems

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia

• Co-founder and CEO

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2023

  Tartu, Tartumaa, Estonia We rethink imaging, give eyes to the robots and put a dynamic pixel 3D camera into every pocket.



University of Tartu

• Estonia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Researcher

  • 2012 - Present

  Research in physical optics, shaping of light; teaching optics and project in photonics. Member of council of Institute of Physics. Young Scientist Award by Cultural Foundation of the President, Special Award for the popularization of scientific ways of thinking, 2016 (Heli Lukner)



rakett69

• member of panel of judges

  • 2011 - Present

  Estonia European Broadcasting Unit entitled Rakett 69 to best educational TV show in Europe in 2012.



Milrem Robotics

• Estonia
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Autonomy Development

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  Tartu Developing autonomy solution for off-road self-driving vehicles.



SWAMP OPTICS, LLC

• United States

• Consultant

  • 2016 - Jan 2018

  Greater Atlanta Area Designing and advising how to build custom ultrashort pulse characterization TG FROG devices for ultrabroadband pulses from ultra violet to infrared spectral ranges.



Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

• Germany
• Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2016

  Erlangen Area, Germany Temporal characterization of ultrashort optical pulses generated in gas filled hollow core photonic crystal fiber covering spectral band from UV to NIR.



Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University

• Lithuania
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Research Fellow

  • Mar 2007 - Apr 2008

  Lithuania Nonlinear processes and light amplification in Kerr media in visible range.