Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB 
Max Segel received his M. Sc. degree in Optical Communications Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, in 2016. He started as a research assistant in the Adaptive Optics group at Fraunhofer IOSB in 2014 and worked in the areas of blind deconvolution, characterization of horizontal turbulence and adaptive optics in free-space optical communications. He is author and co-author of various publications. After graduating in fall 2016, he joined the group as a research assistant and PhD student. He has published several SPIE and OSA conference presentations. His current areas of interest are free space optical communication, underwater optical communication, sensorless adaptive optics without wavefront, and orbital angular momentum multiplexing.