Ingo Fischer

Biography

Ingo Fischer received his Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor and Senior Scientist at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, from 1995 to 2004, and at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, from 2005 to 2007. During these periods he had research visits or guest professor invitations at Nonlinear Optics Center, Albuquerque (NM), USA, at ATR Advanced Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, and at the Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. In 2007, he became a Full Professor and Chair in Integrated Systems in Photonics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. Since 2009, he has been a Professor (CSIC) at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC), Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Research Interest

My research activities comprise photonics, semiconductor laser physics and laser dynamics, complex systems, in particular delay-coupled systems and laser networks, as well as neuro-inspired information processing. My current focus is to bridge the fields of photonics, complex systems and neuroscience, achieving cross-fertilization via the understanding of photonic systems, complex dynamical system's properties and their functionalities. This gives rise to bio-inspired photonics and novel information processing concepts.