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!

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? Our post-doc researcher Sidney Goossens has the answers! Listen to his interesting talk for Universiteit van Vlaanderen (in Dutch).

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.

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).

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.

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!

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.

Belgian and Polish world-renowned experts and professors have teamed up in the project named CHARMING, an Excellence of Science project funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, that uses the latest light-based technologies to detect cancer in a very early stage.

B-PHOT researcher Nathalie Vermeulen has been invited by Universiteit van Vlaanderen to make a podcast dedicated to photonics and the impact of photonics on our daily lives. The podcast entitled 'Can we make internet faster with light?' is now available (in Dutch)!

The Art & History Museum in Brussels is exhibiting a unique collection of stained-glass windows dated from the 15th to the 17th century. The so-called 'roundels' formed the subject of the ‘Fenestra’ project (2017-2021) that was funded by Belspo and coordinated by VUB B-PHOT professor Wendy Meulebroeck.

The article ‘The interaction between daylight and fifteenth and sixteenth century glass windows from the Low Countries’ has been published in Nature’s high-impact publication ‘Scientific Reports’.