Team
B-PHOT teams up a critical mass of 70 highly skilled researchers and technology experts, coached and directed by Prof. Hugo Thienpont. Their joint mission is to embrace photonics, connect the dots between photonics research, innovation, education and STEM, and to create links to other science and engineering disciplines.
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One impossible thing at a time.
Capt Jean-Luc Picard
Hugo Thienpont
Director
hugo.thienpont@vub.be
+32 473 36 12 02
Connecting photonics education with research and industry.
Heidi Ottevaere
Professor
heidi.ottevaere@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 51
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Francis Berghmans
Professor
francis.berghmans@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 53
Free your mind, think photonics.
Nathalie Vermeulen
Professor
nathalie.vermeulen@vub.be
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wendy Meulebroeck
Professor
wendy.meulebroeck@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 51
Driving photonics innovation through advanced manufacturing.
Jürgen Van Erps
Professor
jurgen.van.erps@vub.be
+32 497 80 07 94
They did not know it was impossible so they did it. Mark Twain
Michael Vervaeke
Professor
michael.vervaeke@vub.be
+32 485 40 03 95
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
Nathalie Debaes
EU Project Support Officer
ndebaes@vub.be
+32 2 629 10 18
Fabian Duerr
Professor
Francesco Ferranti
Professor
When one teaches, two learn. Robert Heinlein
Martin Virte
Professor
Tigran Baghdasaryan
Professor
Inspiring a brighter future together.
Ana Quirce
Guest Professor
Sandra Van Vlierberghe
Guest Professor
I am not made of convictions but only doubts. Zdzisław Beksiński
Agnieszka Gierej
Post-doc researcher
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
Koen Vanmol
Post-doc researcher
Driving photonics innovation into industrial applications.
Lien Smeesters
Post-doc researcher
If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. L. Pauling
Pablo Marin-Palomo
Post-doc researcher
Never regret decisions you made. They were what you believed to be right at the time.
Qing Liu
Post-doc researcher
Sergei Mikhailov
Post-doc researcher
Your specs break the Laws of Physics. Unknown optical designer
Simone Sorgato
Post-doc researcher
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
Sidney Goossens
Post-doc researcher
Learning is never enough!
Tatevik Chalyan
Post-doc researcher
Life is always full of light when you choose to do research in Photonics. Join our team and make the world brighter!
Yunfeng Nie
Post-doc researcher
Marc Tabak
Expert - Researcher
Alejandro Madrid Sanchez
PhD student
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. Ken Hudgins
Artem Shcheglov
PhD student
Brevity is the soul of wit. Shakespeare, Hamlet
Artemii Tishchenko
PhD student
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. Bruce Lee
Ben Cloostermans
PhD student
Learn to be worthy of the women of every class, culture, and historical age who spoke boldly. Adrienne Rich
Camila Castillo Pinto
PhD student
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right. Henry Ford
Daniel Plaza
PhD student
If you don't know where to look for an answer, look under the light.
Denys Kurylo
PhD student
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
Margot Vandermotten
PhD student
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so we may fear less.
Martin Skenderas
PhD student
Shape the light for a brighter future!
Mathieu Ladouce
PhD student
Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. Antonio Machado
Mathilde Patin
PhD student
Let's light it up!
Mehdi Feizpour 'Arash'
PhD student
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari
PhD student
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
Natalia A. Gutierrez A.
PhD student
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
Olga Rusyakina
PhD student
Think like a proton, always B-PHOTsitive.
Robbe De Mey
Phd student
Light tomorrow with today. E. Barrett Browning
Sara Abbasi
PhD student
I ride with the light. The light guides me on my quest.
Salah Eddine Guessoum
PhD student
Sasa Topic
PhD student
Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world. Rumi
Shahab Abdollahi
PhD student
An engineer is a person who solves problems that he didn't learn from anywhere.
Yousef Pourvais
PhD student
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. James Clerk Maxwell
Indy Magnus
R&D engineer
Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
Dirk Lison
Technology assistant
If you dream, dream big.
Dries Rosseel
Technology expert
B-PHOT or be not!
Hugues Smeets
Technology expert
Prototypes! not powerpoints. Fablab-Brussels
Jef Verbaenen
Technology expert
Julie Verdood
Lab technician
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.
Kurt Rochlitz
Technology expert
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. A.Einstein
Sergey Verlinski
Technology expert
Staf Haers
Technology expert
Ludo Devis
Technical support
René Waegeneer
Technical support
Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do but because of the people we meet. Simon Sinek
Teresa Bouljon
Asset and Supply Chain Manager
Marcin Zaczkiewicz
ICT officer
Veena Shetty
IT expert
Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.
Astghik Chalyan
STEM/Outreach B-PHOT
Tine De Pauw
STEM/Outreach B-PHOT
Peter Doyle
Business developer
Susan Brindley
Business developer
An Van Den Berghe
Administration
Bernadette Callebaut
EU projects administrative assistant
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
Inge Pettersson
Management assistant
Nadia Cornand
Management assistant
Nadine Torrekens
Assistant financial processing
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
Majorie Jammaers
Education officer
Do what you can't. Casey Neistat
Timo Van Gucht
Marketing & Communications
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Stewart Brand
Keennan De Bie
Communication officer
Halina Malinowska
Technician
An Bilas
Cleaning service
Moudansirou Silassi
Cleaning service