As fiscal year 2025/26 begins, Carl Zeiss AG is reorganizing its Executive Board under President and CEO Andreas Pecher. Dr. Jochen Peter, responsible for the ZEISS Industrial Quality & Research (IQR) segment, will step down from the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG at his own request and on the best of terms on 30 […]

Foresight’s deep-tech ventures team is the lead-investor amongst other eminent institutional investors SenseAI, a spin-out from the University of Liverpool, is developing world-leading ‘compressive sensing’ technology that will enhance the performance of analytical equipment including electron microscopes by up to 100x The investment will supercharge SenseAI’s product development and roll-out to research and industrial customers […]

RIGAKU/JEOL-iCeMS Innovation Core TOKYO — On September 4, 2025, Rigaku Corporation, a global solution partner in X-ray analytical systems and a Group company of Rigaku Holdings Corporation (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; President & CEO: Jun Kawakami; hereinafter “Rigaku”); Kyoto University (Main campus: Kyoto; Nagahiro Minato, President; hereinafter “Kyoto University”); and JEOL Ltd. (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; President […]

Salt Lake City / Brno – TESCAN Group is proud to unveil two software innovations at this year’s prestigious Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) conference in Salt Lake City, USA. These launches reflect TESCAN’s ongoing shift toward a more integrated approach, combining advanced technology, workflow-driven solutions, expert support, and a community built on shared insight. “Our […]

Jim Meyer to Become Chief Financial Officer, Effective March 1, 2026 WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced that Stephen Williamson, senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), has decided to retire from the company, effective March 31, 2026. The company’s board of directors […]

News: As the world leader in serving science, Thermo Fisher Scientific is proud to announce the launch of two new electron microscopes that will be unveiled at Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 27-31, each significantly contributing to the democratization of research in the sciences. Scios 3 FIB-SEM offers high-powered versatility […]

In June 2025, CIQTEK successfully delivered two advanced scanning electron microscopes to its U.S. distributor, JH Technologies, in Fremont, California. The systems include the SEM3300 Tungsten Filament SEM and the SEM5000X Ultra-High Resolution Field Emission SEM, marking a significant step in CIQTEK’s strategic expansion into the North American electron microscopy market. To support the deployment, CIQTEK’s engineering team provided comprehensive on-site training to the […]

ZEISS Group recently announced that Martin Fischer will officially take on the role of President and CEO of ZEISS Greater China, effective from October 1, 2025, reporting directly to Andreas Pecher, President and CEO of the ZEISS Group. Martin Fischer succeeds Maximilian Foerst, who joined the Executive Board of the ZEISS Group as the President […]

Prof. Dr. Jelena Vučković and Prof. Dr. Yuri Kivshar were honored with the ZEISS Research Award. Oberkochen, Munich / Germany | ZEISS Group Two renowned researchers received the ZEISS Research Award at a ceremony on Thursday evening. The award went to physicists Prof. Dr. Jelena Vučković from Stanford University and Prof. Dr. Yuri Kivshar from […]

Intuitive, optimized SEM control for imaging, analysis, and multimodal workflows Oberkochen, Germany| ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions ZEISS now offers its highly flexible and efficient software suite ZEN core for all ZEISS scanning electron microscopes (SEMs), including focused ion beam scanning electron microscopes (FIB-SEMs). ZEN stands for ZEISS Efficient Navigation and lets microscopists obtain more meaningful […]