Giancarlo Pedrini received his MS degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) in 1982 and his PhD degree in Optical Sciences from the University of Neuchatel ( Switzerland ) in 1990. He joined the Institut für Technische Optik at the University of Stuttgart in 1991.

His research areas include: digital holography, vibration analysis, shape measurement, optical testing, measurement of the elastic parameters of biological samples, endoscopy, and phase retrieval.