abberior instruments GmbH CEO Dr. Thorsten Staudt is handing over his position to Meiko Fiedler.

“I am convinced that Meiko Fiedler will continue along the path laid out by Thorsten Staudt and lead the company safely and with foresight through the phase ahead, despite the current uncertainties on the global market,” emphasizes Nobel laureate Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell, from whose department at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, Germany, abberior instruments was spun otf.

Meiko Fiedler takes over as CEO at abberior instruments.

Industrial engineer Fiedler previously held various management positions in national and international companies. He has extensive experience in managing medium-sized companies, most recently serving as CEO of the profile systems division at KÖNIG GmbH & Co. KG in Moringen, Germany, for eleven years. In addition, Meiko Fiedler brings with him many years of expertise in the optical industry, including his work as production and plant manager at LINOS in Göttingen and at SwissOptic AG in Switzerland.

Meiko Fiedler takes over as CEO at abberior instruments.

Thorsten Staudt took over as the company’s CEO in January 2025 during a challenging phase in the global market. He is now resigning for personal reasons.

On behalf of all shareholders, Hell expresses his thanks to Staudt: “Thorsten Staudt has led abberior instruments with a high level of professional competence, strategic vision, and great personal commitment. He has set the course for the company’s further development and orientation. We would like to express our sincere thanks for his extraordinary commitment and regret his departure very much.”

“I am looking forward to the challenge of further developing abberior instruments as a global innovation leader,” says Fiedler. “Together with all employees, I want to further expand our technological leadership. abberior instruments has the best prerequisites for this – in terms of technology, people, and strategy.”

About abberior instruments

abberior instruments is a technology leader in light microscopy as innovator, developer, and manufacturer of superresolution STED and MINFLUX microscopes. The microscopes developed by abberior instruments achieve record optical resolutions of up to one nanometer in biological samples and are in demand worldwide. The company, with subsidiaries in the USA and China, has grown from a start-up to a medium-sized company with around 100 employees without any external investors. The credo of developing and otfering the best products for the highest possible microscopic resolution, for and together with scientists worldwide, will remain the company’s guiding principle in the future.