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B-PHOT Prof. Nathalie Vermeulen Contributes to Opinion Article on Belgium’s Industrial Renaissance

03.07.2025

An opinion piece highlighting the need for an industrial renaissance in Belgium, stressing the importance of local manufacturing and innovation support.

Another Summer Symposium, Another Academic Year Concluded!

01.07.2025

Co-hosted with UGent, the Summer Symposium 2025 marked the end of the academic year for the MSc in Photonics Engineering. The event showcased the students’ achievements and recognized outstanding work with two awards.

Two New FWO Junior Postdoc Fellowships for B‑PHOT Researchers

02.06.2025

Dr. Sergei Mikhailov and Dr. Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari received FWO Junior Postdoc Fellowships for groundbreaking research in fiber sensing and PFAS water detection.

Mohammadshahab (Shahab) Abdollahi Defends PhD on Multi‑Wavelength On‑Chip Lasers Systems

09.05.2025

Shahabhas successfully defended his PhD thesis on harnessing nonlinear dynamics in multi-wavelength on-chip lasers for all-optical signal processing, paving the way for faster, energy-efficient photonic networks.

Mehdi ‘Arash’ Feizpour Defends PhD on Bacterial Screening With Advanced Nanophotonics

16.04.2025

Arash’s PhD research advanced nanophotonic platforms for bacterial screening, enabling faster and more accurate pathogen detection.

EU Invests €15M to Help Companies Supercharge Their Products with Light

15.04.2025

PhotonHub PHACTORY, funded by the EU and led by VUB, offers €15M in support to help companies innovate with photonics through expert guidance, top labs, and up to 85% subsidies.

Photonics for Agrifood Roadmap Published in IOP JPhys Photonics

15.04.2025

Professor Lien Smeesters from B-PHOT co-authors a new roadmap in IOP JPhys Photonics, outlining how photonics can drive innovation in food quality, safety, and sustainability.

Nathalie Vermeulen Chairs Meetings at CLEO-Europe and OPTICA Advanced Photonics Congresses

11.04.2025

B-PHOT researcher Nathalie Vermeulen serves as general chair at key meetings during CLEO-Europe and OPTICA Advanced Photonics Congresses, welcoming new research submissions.

Parliamentarians Visit the VUB Photonics Innovation Campus

21.03.2025

Parliamentarians De Roo and Poelaert explore the role of photonics in high-tech innovation during a visit to VUB B-PHOT’s Photonics Innovation Campus in Pajottegem.

B-PHOT’s Metasurfaces Recognized as Highlight by OPTICA in Optics in 2024

26.02.2025

B-PHOT researchers demonstrated that two-photon polymerization (2PP) enables fast, high-quality 3D nanostructures for advanced metasurfaces. Their work, featured in Optics in 2024 by OSA, showcases high-resolution meta-lenses printed on optical fibers, comparing their performance to traditional lenses.

Tigran Baghdasaryan Receives Best Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West 2025

19.02.2025

Tigran Baghdasaryan and his B-PHOT team won Best Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West 2025 for their work on 3D-printed triangular cross-section MMI couplers in polymer photonics. Their research, published in Laser & Photonics Reviews, advances compact and efficient photonic circuit design.

Prof. Yunfeng Nie from B‑PHOT is awarded Rising Star in Optics 2024

07.02.2025

Prof. Yunfeng Nie from Brussels Photonics (VUB) has been named a Rising Star in Optics 2024 by the Journal of Optics for her contributions to research, education, and outreach. Specializing in computational optics, she focuses on AI-driven, physics-aware optical design and freeform optics.