The start-up LIDROTEC beat twelve competitors in the international Luminate competition and was named "Company of the Year 2022". This comes with a grant of $1 million to help the company gain a foothold in the US market. The Luminate program specifically supports companies in the photonics and optics sector. The start-up LIDROTEC is active in this sector with a technology for extremely precise cutting using lasers.

Together with the research group "Functional Morphology and Biomechanics" of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) led by Prof. Dr. Stanislav Gorb, we have presented a potential fabrication tool for biomimetic replication of complex structures from nature. An image of the publication is featured on the cover of "Journal of Optical Microsystems".