Key Expert Modelling (Optical Simulation & Design) @ From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Regensburg Area, GermanySenior R&D Engineer/ Project Leader @ From December 2007 to July 2012 (4 years 8 months) Regensburg Area, GermanyProject Manager @ - Projects leading in the research and development of optical products (projection and backlighting optical systems) - Leading of optics team - Project coordination with outsourcing partners (optics, mechanics, electronics) - Research, evaluation and patenting of new optical concepts Project: - Pocket DLP projector (from concept till prototyping and evaluation) From December 2006 to November 2007 (1 year) Moscow, Russian FederationOptical Design Leader @ - Projects leading in the research and development of LED products - Development and application of optical design methodology in the company - Research and analysis of competitors samples - Development of new optics design methods - Research and evaluation of new optical materials - Research and Development of optics for LEDs (including all stages of development process) Projects: - LADA CHMSL (stop-light for LADA cars) - Large Full Color Pixel (full color imaging screen) - Development of various white and color LEDs From November 2005 to November 2006 (1 year 1 month) Moscow, Russian FederationResearcher @ - Simulations of Non-Imaging optics - Research the analytical and numerous algorithms for lighting optics design Projects: - Development the Random Microlens Array simulation tool - Design the LED backlighting for TFT displays From December 2004 to November 2005 (1 year) Moscow, Russian FederationOptics Team Leader @ - Leading the project on the development of optoelectronic LED devices - Supervising the Optics group - Design of the primary and secondary LED optics (Zemax, Opticad, DiaLux, Solidworks) - Development of my own original software to design the primary LED optics systems - Establishing, deployment and control over the optical and photometrical measurements Projects: - Effective optical design of primary LED lenses - Electric train carriage illumination, using LED - LED traffic microstructured light diffuser - LED warning light - Life jacket LED light From October 2002 to November 2004 (2 years 2 months) Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Scholarship, Maschinenbau @ Technische Universität Ilmenau / TU Ilmenau From 2001 to 2002 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Optical and Optoelectronic devices and complexes @ St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics From 1993 to 2002 Alexander Linkov is skilled in: Optics, Semiconductors, Optoelectronics, R&D, Photonics, Simulations, Modelling, Raytracing, Non Imaging opics, Thin Films, Zemax, Lighttools, Modeling, LED lighting systems, Product Development