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Hands-on industry training during second PhotonHub Experience Centre at B-PHOT
B-PHOT has hosted a second training on Optics and Freeform Optics for engineers and developers in the framework of PhotonHub's Experience Centre. Our researchers opened up their labs and shared basic technical insights and skills in optics and freeform optics design, prototyping, metrology and manufacturing.
PhotonHub Demo Centre 'Photonics and Food'
B-PHOT will host the PhotonHub Demo Centre on 'Photonics & Food' in Brussels on October 6, 2023. Join our researchers in their labs and discover how photonics can play an essential role in the harvesting and screening of food products.
Women’s Day: “It’s a natural thing!”
Happy International Women’s day! Today we celebrate the amazing achievements of women around the world. This year’s theme is all about embracing equity and promoting gender balance in all aspects of life. This is what we are doing at B-PHOT as well! #EmbraceEquity on the work floor.
Hugo Thienpont guest in musical talkshow
Musical Blues! Local radio station 'Radio Rand' invited our Director Hugo Thienpont to select 20 of his favourite songs & to talk about B-PHOT, VUB, photonics and Gooik. The discussion is in Dutch, the music is universal!
Looking back and forward with our Review!
We launched 2023 at full speed! Let's take a moment to reflect and look towards the future.
OPN interviews Prof. Baghdasaryan: "Be more ambitious and don't doubt what you think is important"
Optica spoke with Prof. Tigran Baghdasaryan about his career path in their latest issue of 'Senior Member Insights' in Optics & Photonics News (OPN) magazine.
CARLA project launches summary video on European career events
The pan-European training programme CARLA has come to a conclusion. To promote photonics careers among STEM university students and young researchers, the initiative by the European Centres for Outreach in Photonics gathered 11 leading photonics organizations, which included VUB B-PHOT.
Hugo Thienpont explains to Optica why Photonhub is a game changer in photonics training & reskilling
"The optics community continues to wrestle with a shortage of skilled technical workers for labs and shop floors." Optica's Optics & Photonics News interviewed several experts about the hunt for skilled photonics talent and came to Prof. Thienpont to see how PhotonHub approaches training & reskilling in photonics.
Opinion: 'A very dynamic year for the Optical Fiber Sensing group'
2022 was a very dynamic year for the Optical Fiber Sensing group, where we continued developing and promoting fiber sensing technology based on specialty fibers and advanced sensor fabrication techniques for different applications and domains.
Belgian youth explores photonics at Brussels' Day of Science 2022
On Sunday November 26 2022, more than 30 000 visitors came by for Day of Science ("Dag van de Wetenschap") to discover technology, physics, space, society and several other scientific disciplines. B-PHOT was represented by several researchers together with our STEM team of B-Photonics and Eyest.
B-PHOT publication on nonlinear-optical data tables for emerging materials
A recent manuscript on the composition of nonlinear-optical data tables for emerging materials has been published and accepted in the Journal of Physics: Photonics. This work is the result of a collaboration with 20 international experts under the coordination of B-PHOT researcher Prof. Nathalie Vermeulen.
Gathering the forces at a three-day off-site meeting
B-PHOT gathered the forces at a three-day Retreat meeting in the Belgian coast town of Oostduinkerke. At this off-site meeting, we shared our knowledge with some seminars, and got to know each other better with some good food and a fun golf-kart rally!