Florian M. Laggner received the Ph.D. degree from the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), Vienna, Austria, in 2017, studying the inter-edge-localized mode (ELM) evolution of the pedestal structure at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. He is currently a Research Scientist, working on plasma edge and pedestal physics, and plasma diagnostics, with a particular focus on the pedestal profile structure and its prediction. He joined the Plasma Control Group, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, as a Post-Doctoral Researcher, to implement a real-time Thomson scattering diagnostic at National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade (NSTX-U). In 2019, he transitioned to the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, to install a prototype Lyman-α diagnostic called LLAMA at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, which enables the measurement of edge neutral density profiles. He has been an advisor and a mentor for numerous students at undergraduate and graduate level, guiding a research projects and training the next generation of researchers.