Wolfgang Becker

Becker & Hickl GmbH, Berlin

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Wolfgang Becker is specialist in time-resolved optical detection techniques. He obtained his PhD 1979 in Berlin, Germany. Since 1993 he is the head of Becker & Hickl GmbH in Berlin. His field of interest is development and application of advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting techniques. He started to develop multi-dimensional TCSPC techniques in 1989, and is the originator of the TCSPC FLIM technique that is now widely used in laser scanning microscopes. He is author of the bh TCSPC handbook, now out in the 6th edition, and of ‘Advanced Single Photon Counting Techniques’, Springer, 2005, and editor of ‘Advanced Single Photon Counting Applications’, Springer, 2015.
He likes cats, skiing and beach volleyball.