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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 postdoctoral researcher Tatevik Chalyan will be the Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Biosensors Journal on 'Optical Biosensors for Food Safety & Quality Inspection'.

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.

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 – a new pan-European photonics digital innovation hub – has been awarded €19 million investment from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.

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.

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.

The 50 most accessed papers of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology features two recent contributions of B-PHOT Brussels Photonics.

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.

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.

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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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.