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.
One impossible thing at a time.
Capt Jean-Luc Picard
Connecting photonics education with research and industry.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Free your mind, think photonics.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
Driving photonics innovation through advanced manufacturing.
They did not know it was impossible so they did it. Mark Twain
When one teaches, two learn. Robert Heinlein
Cutting-edge photonics technology as a tool to fight climate change.
Driving photonics innovation into industrial applications.
Life is always full of light when you choose to do research in Photonics. Join our team and make the world brighter!
Inspiring a brighter future together.
Ana Quirce
Alejandro Madrid Sanchez
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
Koen Vanmol
Let's light it up!
Mehdi 'Arash' Feizpour
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari
If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. L. Pauling
Pablo Marin-Palomo
Never regret decisions you made. They were what you believed to be right at the time.
Qing Liu
Think like a proton, always B-PHOTsitive.
Robbe De Mey
Sergei Mikhailov
Your specs break the Laws of Physics. Unknown optical designer
Simone Sorgato
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein
Sidney Goossens
Learning is never enough!
Tatevik Chalyan
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mode-locked Lasers, and Integrated Photonics.
Tushar Malica
Marc Tabak
Let me risk a little more light. Gandalf
Arié Nacar
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. Bruce Lee
Ben Cloostermans
When God said, "Let there be light", he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light. Charles H. Townes
Ben Gellaerts
You don’t have to be perfect to be successful, just be persistent and consistent.
Damilare Samuel Ojo
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you are right. Henry Ford
Daniel Plaza
If you don't know where to look for an answer, look under the light.
Denys Kurylo
In the silence of the universe where starlight beams, time dances gently, weaving endless dreams. In a night so clear people can feel joy or fear, space stretches in light-years, 'til dreams disappear.
Gilbert Oca
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them, I shall build my castle. Nemo Nox
Karen Danielyan
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
Margot Vandermotten
E pur si muove (And yet it moves) G. Galilei
Maria Lopera
Shape the light for a brighter future!
Mathieu Ladouce
We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. Marie Curie
Natalia A. Gutierrez A.
Light tomorrow with today. E. Barrett Browning
Sara Abbasi
I ride with the light. The light guides me on my quest.
Salah Eddine Guessoum
Sasa Topic
Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world. Rumi
Shahab Abdollahi
Believe in yourself to conquer the future. On the path forward, be brave enough to try whatever you want to do. If you want to do it, there’s a chance you can achieve it.
Xiaogang Li
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. James Clerk Maxwell
Indy Magnus
Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
Dirk Lison
If you dream, dream big.
Dries Rosseel
B-PHOT or be not!
Hugues Smeets
Prototypes! not powerpoints. Fablab-Brussels
Jef Verbaenen
Julie Verdood
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail.
Kurt Rochlitz
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom. A.Einstein
Sergey Verlinski
Staf Haers
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
Marcin Zaczkiewicz
Veena Shetty
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
Nathalie Debaes
Change is unavoidable. Dream big, work hard and stay focused.
Jan Watté
Peter Doyle
Susan Brindley
An Van Den Berghe
Ariane Lefever
Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. Maya Angelou
Inge Pettersson
Nadia Cornand
Bernadette Callebaut
Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.
Astghik Chalyan
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, live today
Marc De Haen
Opportunities don't happen, you create them. Chris Grosser
Wendy Van Moer
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain
Majorie Jammaers
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Stewart Brand
Keennan De Bie
An Bilas
Halina Malinowska
°04/04/1988 – †11/11/2024