Alfred Vogel is full professor and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Optics, University Luebeck, Germany, Deputy CEO of the Medical Laser Center Luebeck GmbH, and Adjunct Professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from University Goettingen in 1987. He is fellow of SPIE and OSA, editorial board member for the Journal of Biomedical Optics, advisory editor of Biomedical Optics Express, and was associate editor of Optics Express. His research interests include pulsed and plasma-mediated laser interactions with water, cells and biological tissues.