News & Events
'Changing the world does not happen in the lab only'
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.
Discover career opportunities in photonics at CARLA Brussels 2022
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).
Invited perspective article on graphene nonlinear optics by B-PHOT researcher Nathalie Vermeulen
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.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
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!
OPINION: ‘Photonics can help provide a solution for today’s major challenges’
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.
Interuniversity project uses photonics to detect and visualise cancer cells
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.
Can we make internet faster with light? Universiteit van Vlaanderen podcast by Nathalie Vermeulen
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)!
Fenestra project studies glass windows collection of Brussels' Art & History Museum
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.
Study on fifteenth and sixteenth century glass windows published in Nature’s Scientific Reports
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’.
Margot Vandermotten wins 'ie-net Engineering Awards 2021'
PhD researcher Margot Vandermotten has won the first prize of the 'ie-net Engineering Awards 2021' in the category Civil Engineering with her master thesis on the impact of drugs on the human liver.
PhotonHub Europe webinar series #Photonpreneurs 3 on 24th November
Antti Sunnari, CEO of Dispelix, will share his experience at the helm of the company in episode 3 of monthly PhotonHub webinar series focused on investment readiness in photonics.
A nervous system of glass fibers will allow airplanes to feel
The next generation of airplanes will be able to feel when they suffer damage, thanks to a nervous system of glass fibers. B-PHOT postdoc researcher Sidney Goossens is developing this technology using glass fibers.