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Akira Hiruma, chairman of the Board of Directors of Hamamatsu Photonics, has been honored as a VUB Fellow by Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Mr Hiruma was recognised for his valuable contributions to the photonics innovation activities at B-PHOT Brussels Photonics and VUB's global reach.

B-PHOT Director Hugo Thienpont has been awarded the Prize for Societal Valorization by the Research Council of Vrije Universiteit Brussel for his remarkable achievements in photonics and its impact on society.

The students of the Master of Science in Photonics Engineering have celebrated their graduation with a wonderful ceremony on the Grand Place in Brussels. Also, three of B-PHOT's PhD students were celebrated for their successful thesis defence in the past academic year.

B-PHOT and VUB researchers have published a new paper in the Microchemical Journal on classifying hemoglobin fractions in the liquid state using Raman spectroscopy combined with machine learning.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. B-PHOT Professor Nathalie Vermeulen sees their attosecond physics research as groundbreaking.

The professor team of B-PHOT is being reinforced with two research professors. Lien Smeesters and Yunfeng Nie will be professors from October 1st, 2023.

Within the EIC Pathfinder project VortexLC, B-PHOT is developing a sensitive optical detection system that has the potential to greatly improve how we monitor diabetes and enhance healthcare outcomes.

B-PHOT will host an online introductory training course on photonics innovation on 19 September 2023. Join this exciting 2.5-hour training to understand how photonics technologies can be innovatively applied to your industry!

The research groups from all the universities in Belgium working on fundamental and applied topics in photonics are hosting the 4th edition of bePOM, the Belgian Photonics Online Meetup. Engage in this career and networking event on 21 and 22 September in Brussels or online!

B-PHOT researcher Lien Smeesters is representing PhotonHub Europe at the Agrifood Innovation Event in the Netherlands on November 21st 2023. She will moderate a session on how the consortium supports photonics within the agrifood industry.

B-PHOT Professor Jürgen Van Erps will be the guest editor of JPhys Photonics' next Focus Issue on Photonic Integrated Circuit Platforms and their Packaging, together with Dr. Victor Dolores-Calzadilla (TU Eindhoven).

A B-PHOT paper on 'Miniaturized two-channel broadband spectrometer based on variable-spacing concave blazed gratings' has been featured as the cover article of a new edition of the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems.