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B-PHOT researcher Lien Smeesters is representing PhotonHub Europe at the Agrifood Innovation Event in the Netherlands on November 21st 2023. She will moderate a session on how the consortium supports photonics within the agrifood industry.

B-PHOT Professor Jürgen Van Erps will be the guest editor of JPhys Photonics' next Focus Issue on Photonic Integrated Circuit Platforms and their Packaging, together with Dr. Victor Dolores-Calzadilla (TU Eindhoven).

A B-PHOT paper on 'Miniaturized two-channel broadband spectrometer based on variable-spacing concave blazed gratings' has been featured as the cover article of a new edition of the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems.

The second-year students of the Master of Science in Photonics Engineering (VUB-UGent) are leaving for internships worldwide this summer. Some of them are reporting about their journey live on Instagram in the coming weeks!

B-PHOT will host the PhotonHub Experience Centre on 'Optics and Freeform Optics' in Brussels from 18 to 20 October 2023. Join our researchers in their labs and discover the basic technical insights and skills in optics and freeform optics design, prototyping, metrology and manufacturing.

Ecosystems: a term that we encounter more and more in the media. It is even said that companies and organizations will have a hard time in the future if they do not become part of it. But what does it mean? In what forms will we encounter them and how does it relate to the traditional networks we already know?

With the signing of an exclusive licensing deal, BIO INX becomes the latest spin-off from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University (UGent). It’s working on developing organic inks to produce human “spare parts” with the help of 3D printers.

In a talk with Universiteit van Vlaanderen, B-PHOT researcher Koen Vanmol explains what we do at the VUB Photonics Campus, how glass fiber internet works and how he can produce tiny freeform lenses.

B-PHOT's Post-Doctoral researcher Dr. Pablo Marin-Palomo has obtained an FWO Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Research Foundation - Flanders.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (B-PHOT) & the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) are looking for a senior Researcher in the context of the FED-tWIN programme to develop a new space mission for the measurement of the Earth's Energy Imbalance through innovative optical & thermal instruments with high accuracy and stability.

Last week, the full B-PHOT team left the labs and offices for a three-day off-site meeting with inspiring seminars, creative workshops, delicious meals and relaxing activities. A perfect time to bring our amazing group together in Affligem, Belgium!

The Uzbek universities participating in the INMACOM project have paid a visit to the facilities of VUB and UGent in the framework of a collaboration between Belgium and Uzbekistan to set up a master's programme in photonics and optical communications.