Team
B-PHOT teams up a critical mass of 70 highly skilled researchers and technology experts, coached and directed by Prof. Hugo Thienpont. Their joint mission is to embrace photonics, connect the dots between photonics research, innovation, education and STEM, and to create links to other science and engineering disciplines.
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One impossible thing at a time.
Capt Jean-Luc Picard
Hugo Thienpont
Director
hugo.thienpont@vub.be
+32 473 36 12 02
Connecting photonics education with research and industry.
Heidi Ottevaere
Professor
heidi.ottevaere@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 51
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Francis Berghmans
Professor
francis.berghmans@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 53
Free your mind, think photonics.
Nathalie Vermeulen
Professor
nathalie.vermeulen@vub.be
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wendy Meulebroeck
Professor
wendy.meulebroeck@vub.be
+32 2 629 34 51
Driving photonics innovation through advanced manufacturing.
Jürgen Van Erps
Professor
jurgen.van.erps@vub.be
+32 497 80 07 94
Be factful, think enlighted and act compassionate.
Thomas Geernaert
Professor
thomas.geernaert@vub.be
+32 2 629 13 81
It's easy to hit the highest precision, you only have to touch the right key at the right time and the machine will play itself.
Michael Vervaeke
Professor
michael.vervaeke@vub.be
+32 485 40 03 95
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
Nathalie Debaes
EU Project Support Officer
ndebaes@vub.be
+32 2 629 10 18
Sandra Van Vlierberghe
Professor
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
Valéry Ann Jacobs
Professor
Fabian Duerr
Professor
Krassimir Panajotov
Professor
When one teaches, two learn. Robert Heinlein
Martin Virte
Professor
Inspiring a brighter future together.
Ana Quirce
Guest Professor
There is nothing more practical than a good theory. Kurt Lewin
David Castello-Lurbe
Post-doc researcher
Dream big and dare to fail.
Gebirie Yizengaw
Post-doc researcher
Driving photonics innovation into industrial applications.
Lien Smeesters
Post-doc researcher
Never regret decisions you made. They were what you believed to be right at the time.
Qing Liu
Post-doc researcher
Robert Pawlus
Post-doc researcher
Your specs break the Laws of Physics. Unknown optical designer
Simone Sorgato
Post-doc researcher
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Spencer Jolly
Post-doc researcher
Learning is never enough!
Tatevik Chalyan
Post-doc researcher
Tigran Baghdasaryan
Post-doc researcher
Life is always full of light when you choose to do research in Photonics. Join our team and make the world brighter!
Yunfeng Nie
Post-doc researcher
Marc Tabak
Expert - Researcher
I am not made of convictions but only doubts. Zdzisław Beksiński
Agnieszka Gierej
PhD student
Alejandro Madrid Sanchez
PhD student
The meaning of life is to give life meaning. Ken Hudgins
Artem Shcheglov
PhD student
Brevity is the soul of wit. Shakespeare, Hamlet
Artemii Tishchenko
PhD student
Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.
Astghik Chalyan
PhD student
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. Bruce Lee
Ben Cloostermans
PhD student
Learn to be worthy of the women of every class, culture, and historical age who spoke boldly. Adrienne Rich
Camila Castillo Pinto
PhD student
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
Koen Vanmol
PhD student
Developing space optical instruments to improve climate change monitoring.
Luca Schifano
PhD student
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so we may fear less.
Martin Skenderas
PhD student
Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. Antonio Machado
Mathilde Patin
PhD student
Let's light it up!
Mehdi Feizpour 'Arash'
PhD student
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari
PhD student
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
Natalia A. Gutierrez A.
PhD student
The genuine power is the knowledge - the only possession that cannot be stolen, the only friend that will never betray.
Narek Karapetyan
PhD student
This is merely a rest during that endless journey, not where the journey ends, but where it begins anew. Munshi Premchan
Nitish Gupta
PhD student
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
Olga Rusyakina
PhD student
Think like a proton, always B-PHOTsitive.
Robbe De Mey
Phd student
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
Sidney Goossens
PhD student
Sergei Mikhailov
PhD student
An engineer is a person who solves problems that he didn't learn from anywhere.
Yousef Pourvais
PhD student
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. James Clerk Maxwell
Indy Magnus
R&D Engineer
If you dream, dream big.
Dries Rosseel
Technology expert
B-PHOT or be not!
Hugues Smeets
Technology expert
Prototypes! not powerpoints. Fablab-Brussels
Jef Verbaenen
Technology Expert
Julie Verdood
Lab technician
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.
Kurt Rochlitz
Technology expert
Ludo Devis
Technical support
René Waegeneer
Technical support
Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or the things we do but because of the people we meet. Simon Sinek
Teresa Bouljon
Asset and Supply Chain Manager
Marcin Zaczkiewicz
ICT officer
Veena Shetty
IT expert
Tine De Pauw
STEM/Outreach B-PHOT
Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most. Augusta F. Kantra
Penelope Schoutteet
Business Developer
Peter Doyle
Business Developer
An Van Den Berghe
Administration
Bernadette Callebaut
EU Projects Administrative Assistant
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
Inge Pettersson
Management Assistant
Nadia Cornand
Management Assistant
Nadine Torrekens
Assistant Financial Processing
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
Majorie Jammaers
Education Officer
Do what you can't. Casey Neistat
Timo Van Gucht
Marketing & Communications
Alfons Callebaut
Technician
Halina Malinowska
Technician
An Bilas
Cleaning service