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PhD on 'Restoration strategies for stone imitating renders' wins Monument Study Award
Yves Govaerts has won the Monuments Study Award 2020 from WTA NL-VL with his PhD on 'Restoration strategies for stone imitating renders (1880-1940)'.
B-PHOT researcher Tatevik Chalyan Guest Editor for Biosensors Special Issue
B-PHOT postdoctoral researcher Tatevik Chalyan will be the Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Biosensors Journal on 'Optical Biosensors for Food Safety & Quality Inspection'.
B-PHOT coordinates Photonics Digital Innovation Hub that secured €19 million to boost SME growth
PhotonHub Europe - a new pan-European photonics digital innovation hub - has been awarded €19 million investment from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme. The project will be coordinated by B-PHOT and its Director Hugo Thienpont.
High School students do thesis research at B-PHOT
Two science students from Don Bosco Halle called for help in investigating crystals for their thesis. B-PHOT Engineer Indy Magnus welcomed them at our labs at the Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus and helped them with their experiments.
PhotonHub Europe secures €19 million to boost SME growth and ensure Europe’s global competitiveness
PhotonHub Europe – a new pan-European photonics digital innovation hub – has been awarded €19 million investment from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Series on co-innovation: European innovation hub ACTPHAST lets companies see the light
In a VUB series on co-innovation at Kanaal Z, B-PHOT explains how photonics and the interaction between businesses and researchers can create groundbreaking innovations.
Series on co-innovation: Light as a technology? Photonics boosts businesses and society
In a VUB series on co-innovation at Kanaal Z, B-PHOT explains how photonics and the interaction between businesses and researchers can create groundbreaking innovations.
Two B-PHOT publications in Journal of Lightwave Technology 'Top 50'
The 50 most accessed papers of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology features two recent contributions of B-PHOT Brussels Photonics.
B-PHOT publication in Optics Letters highlighted as Editor’s Pick
Recent research breakthrough of B-PHOT members David Castello-Lurbe, Jürgen Van Erps and Nathalie Vermeulen in collaboration with researchers from the University of Valencia has been highlighted as Editor’s Pick in Optics Letters.
ERC Starting Grant for VUB Brussels Photonics researcher Martin Virte
B-PHOT and Vrije Universiteit Brussel researcher Martin Virte has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project COLOR’UP. Virte will investigate how multi-color lasers could be exploited to process optical signals at ultra-high frequencies.
Breakthrough on graphene modeling published as Frontispiece article in Laser & Photonics Reviews
Groundbreaking graphene research of B-PHOT members David Castello-Lurbe, Hugo Thienpont and Nathalie Vermeulen has been published as a Frontispiece article with a dedicated ‘artist’s impression’ illustration in the high-impact journal of Laser&Photonics
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New paper in Structural Health Monitoring journal from PhD work of Urszula Nawrot
VUB professors Francis Berghmans and Thomas Geernaert and PhD student Urszula Nawrot teamed up with the Civil Engineering department of KULeuven to develop a new monitoring technique based on vibrational strain mode shapes. The newly published results can contribute to monitoring the safety of concrete bridges.