Professor Gunther Notni is currently a University Professor at Ilmenau University of Technology, leading the Group for Quality Assurance and Industrial Image Processing since his appointment in 2019. He completed his studies in Physics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, earning a Dipl./Phys. degree in Coherence Optics in 1988 and his Ph.D. in 1992. Professor Notni's career at the Fraunhofer IOF Jena began in 1992, where he led the Optical Systems Department from 1994 to 2019 and currently holds a position as Senior Director in Sensing and Metrology. He has been honored with several awards, including the 2015 Rudolf Kingslake Award and the 2021 InVision TOP Innovation for the “MWIR-3D-Sensor”. Additionally, he is actively involved in numerous professional organizations, notably as the Chair of the VDI State Association of Thuringia since 2018, Deputy Chairman of Optonet (e.V.), a member of the board of Fraunhofer IOF as a Senior Director of Sensors & Metrology.