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B-PHOT celebrates the summer with team BBQ
B-PHOT welcomed the full team in Gooik for a nice team barbecue with lots of food, fun and smiles!
Microoptics Conference 2022: Open Call for Papers
The Microoptics Conference (MOC) 2022 in Jena, Germany, offers lectures and discussions to provide a scientific exchange for an update and review of scientific and technical information in a very wide range of micro-optical topics. B-PHOT Professor Heidi Ottevaere will be the programme co-chair of the conference.
B-PHOT researcher "Editor's Pick" article in Optics Letters most downloaded
David Castelló-Lurbe's article "Breaking fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation" was published as Editor's Pick in the latest Optics Letters from Optica. Last month, it was the most downloaded article in the publication.
Light Night 2022 with Prof. Sir Michael V Berry and Prof. Dr. Ir. Heidi Ottevaere.
Light Night is a yearly event of the B-PHOT Student Chapter in which we host well-known Photonics scientists. This year, we have two speakers, namely Prof. Sir Michael V Berry (University of Bristol) and Prof. Dr. Ir. Heidi Ottevaere.
Photolympics 2022: battle other teams aligning a laser-photonics setup!
B-PHOT Student Chapter challenges you to align laster-photonics setups! Compete in teams of 2 for focusing the most light into a very narrow pinhole, much like threading a needle and feel the true meaning of colours via spectroscopy!
A World of Light: B-PHOT Student Chapter organises Photo Contest
It is that time of the year again and B-PHOT Student Chapter is back with another Photo Contest. If you have an eye for aesthetics, we challenge you to capture the beauty of light and its display in our daily lives, technology, and/or in our cultural and social celebrations.
Flying to Spain in a more ecological way
Flying to Spain in a more ecological way? Our post-doc researcher Sidney Goossens has the answers! Listen to his interesting talk for Universiteit van Vlaanderen (in Dutch).
'Changing the world does not happen in the lab only'
In the new issue of 'Economie werkt', the magazine of Provincie Vlaams-Brabant, B-PHOT professor Heidi Ottevaere and Antleron CEO Jan Schrooten discuss a shared vision on end-to-end collaboration in making personalized medicine a reality for all and the need for a strong, life science-technology cross-over ecosystem.
Discover career opportunities in photonics at CARLA Brussels 2022
Curious about careers in Photonics? Don't hesitate and join the hybrid CARLA camp to get a glimpse of careers opportunities in photonics! The event will run over three days, from 22 to 24 March 2022 (16:30 - 21:30, GMT+1).
Invited perspective article on graphene nonlinear optics by B-PHOT researcher Nathalie Vermeulen
Prof Nathalie Vermeulen received an invitation to write an Invited Perspective paper for APL Photonics journal on 'nonlinear optics on graphene'. The article got published and selected as 'Featured Article' by APL Photonics.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and B-PHOT Brussels Photonics focus on gender balance. We are proud to announce that 50% of our team consists of strong women! Ladies, The World Needs You!
OPINION: ‘Photonics can help provide a solution for today’s major challenges’
In an opinion article for the Belgian news magazine ‘Knack’, B-PHOT Professor Nathalie Vermeulen reflects on the importance of light technology and the opportunities it provides.