home page Peter Apian-Bennewitz
consulting physicist
summary
- core competences:
consulting on light-matter interaction in industrial applications, as governed by Physics and manufacturing parameters
design and manufacture of measurement set-ups, especially in the field of optics and light scattering,
designer/author/developer of the pab PG2 Gonio-Photometer
- clients, (detailed references upon request)
- automotive companies: anti-reflection concepts and shape optimisation for dashboard and interior design
- architectural engineers and architects: glare and illumination from cladding, measurement, modelling, material selection
- manufacturer of architectural materials: measurement and modelling of materials for daylighting interior spaces
- medical company: optimisation of illumination in vestibular goggle
- sensor manufacturer: specialised measurement of retro-reflecting film for light barriers
- lighting LED manufacturer: measurements of copolymer materials for optimising forward scattering and illumination
- cine industry: measurements and consulting on projection systems
- solar research: reference measurement of narrow-angle scattering at mirrors for solar concentrators
- publications:
- patents:
- CV in European Europass format:
PDF file
chronological
- 2015+: pab.nz, website of pab Ltd serving "downunder"
- 2008+: measurements and consulting
- since 2007: pab PG2 gonio-photometers installed at (newer ones first)
- EPFL Computer Graphics Lab, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany
- Competence Centre Envelopes and Solar Energy (CC EASE) Lucerne, Switzerland
- Solar Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA, USA
- 2007 - 2024 , industrial client
- 2007 - today , my own lab, for BSDF measurement services and consulting
- 2006: founded pab advanced technologies Ltd
to manufacture and market the PG2 gonio-photometer. pab Ltd is registered in the UK
and had been registered, prior to 'Brexit', in Germany as well.
- 2004: started design on my pab PG2 gonio-photometer
- 2000 to 2006: initiated and run a non-profit support site for the Radiance raytracing software
www.radiance-online.org.
It started as a "pirate" project, out of frustration when the official support at LBNL had dwindled down to zero.
And it became the exchange amongst Radiance users, with nearly 300 users on the mailing lists at peak time:
snapshot 8th March 2006.
Considering that Radiance has had a notoriously specialised user basis, that was a fairly large number.
Finally, when I left Fraunhofer ISE, which had hosted my hardware on which it run, the domain and support was
moved to LBNL by me in 2007. Although, now, 16 years later, they even don't know themselves how it got started, apparently.
- 1999 and onwards: freelance optical consulting for automotive, medical and research companies
- 1987 and onwards: partly self employed ("pab-opto", electronics, optics, still active today)
- 1985-1999: trained and employed at Fraunhofer ISE:
supportive hands-on skills
- programming on UNIX and Linux, user-space progs, kernel drivers, etc
for measurement control, data acquisition, data visualisation and modelling
- designing electronic hardware for sensor and measurement control, if
off-the-shelf components are not fitting
- CAD design, CNC machining for fun
backyard compact 4-wheel all-terrain vehicle: k5 atv
backyard example of 3D finite element modelling (FEM) stress analysis
- computer animations (using rendering programs Radiance and Rayshade), spline camera paths
chapter on Animation in the Rendering with Radiance book
- a good deal of practical experience in mechanical assembly, maintenance and analysis of existing constructions:
pab pgII,
pab k5 atv,
tractor repair, overhaul, updates and extensions,
mini excavators
- misc. licenses: forklift, truck up to 7.5t, PPL-A
miscellaneous insights and experiences
- my collection of vintage Zeiss tachymeters for land surveying, from 1960 onward
- bits of hardware and their RCA ("Root Cause Analysis")
- favourite technical museums
- comment on lab rules and "practical research"
- some links to the situation in 2013 of peer reviewed journals
- assembly of pgII,
concept of k5 atv
- my presence on the so-called "social" websites ? No, nop, nada, njet. What part of ''no'' don't you understand ?
Explicitly giving personal details or photos to commercial companies for their uncontrolled storage and processing can not be regarded as
beneficial or advisable.
One of the simpler reasons for this: That information is redistributed with a requirement for personal registration. Whereas information on
this page here, and a few gazillion others, is available without the need to register with any commercial company and without personalised
tracking.
The main reason is a right to individual privacy, which gets forgotten too quickly these days.
- some role models:
[ Images courtesy of Flight International, - from the good ol' times of Uncle Roger.
still somewhat missing S & L]
| genuine trouble shooting
| genuine leadership
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There is no such thing as a "cloud". There are other people's computers.
