Ready to shape the future of European #Photonics? 🚀🇪🇺 Meet us in Brussels on 9 and 10 June '26! We’re excited to connect with the community to discuss: ✔️ The new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda ✔️ The next EU Framework Programme ✔️ New collaborations Secure your spot and come say hello. 👇

📢 We are organising a FREE one-day @photonhub.eu in-person training on Photonics and Food. 📅 22/01/26 📍 Brussels, Belgium 👉 photonhub.eu/training/photonics-and-food-january-26-edition 👩‍🏫 Training will be delivered by experts Heidi Ottevaere, Wendy Meulebroeck, Lien Smeesters and Indy Magnus.

✨ The B-PHOT team wishes you joyful holidays filled with warmth and light. Please note that VUB will be closed between Christmas and New Year. We look forward to reconnecting in 2026!

Congrats to Pablo Marin-Palomo, now professor at VUB B-PHOT! His work will drive next-gen optical & THz innovations. 👉 Read the full story via https://www.b-phot.org/news/pablo-marin-palomo-joins-b-phot-professor-team

Proud to share that Ben Gellaerts & Arié Nacar from VUB B-PHOT have been awarded FWO PhD fellowships, advancing PICs lasers and free-space optical communications. 👉 https://www.b-phot.org/news/ben-gellaerts-and-arie-nacar-receive-fwo-phd-fellowship-to-pursue-their-research-at-vub-b-phot

We are #hiring a Technology Expert in Optical Spectroscopic Sensors for Agrifood Applications! 👉 Apply before 17 November via https://www.b-phot.org/technology-expert-in-optical-spectroscopic-sensors-for-agrifood-applications

We are #hiring a talented PhD candidate to work on spectral sensor development for metal additive manufacturing! 👉 Apply before 16 November via https://www.b-phot.org/phd-position-spectral-sensor-development-for-additive-manufacturing

B-PHOT Co-Organises IEEE Photonics Benelux Symposium 2025 in Brussels on 20–21/11/25, together with @ulbruxelles.bsky.social. ⚠️ Deadline for abstract submission: 2 October 2025, at midnight. Don’t miss the chance. 👉 Register now and submit your abstract via https://bit.ly/3KiT4Ok

Our new €5M EU-funded initiative bringing Europe’s leading universities, labs, and companies together to shape the future of photonics education and training. Here’s to an exciting journey ahead!💡 phortify.eu/news-events/... #Photonics #DigitalSkills #EUfunded #FutureSkills

📢 @b-phot.vub.be‬ is organising a FREE #PhotonHub Online Introductory Course in Photonics Innovation 💡🎓 📅 24 September 2025, 10:30 – 12:30 CET 📍 Online Training 👉 Register your spot at https://bit.ly/4laATbD

B-PHOT & Yerevan State University co-hosted Optica’s Siegman School on Lasers in Armenia. Chaired by Tatevik Chalyan, Heidi Ottevaere & Mushegh Rafayelyan (YSU), it brought nearly 100 participants from 25 countries, with B-PHOT contributions as speakers, chairs & students. 👉 https://bit.ly/3JBux6R

Two B-PHOT researchers won FWO Junior Postdoc Fellowships! 🔬 Sergei focuses on fiber sensors for infrastructure. 💧 Mehrdad is tackling PFAS detection in water. Only 16.1% succeeded. Congrats to both! 👉 https://www.b-phot.org/news/two-new-fwo-junior-postdoc-fellowships-for-b-phot-researchers

Excited to see our publication "Ultracompact 3D Splitter for Single-Core to Multi-Core Optical Fiber Connections" featured by Nanoscribe! Great recognition for the team’s work in 3D nanofabrication for photonics. Read more 👉 https://www.nanoscribe.com/en/news-insights/stay-up-to-date/publications/

🎓 Congratulations, Dr. Arash! Arash defended his PhD "SERS-Based Lab-on-a-Chip for Machine-Learning-Enabled Bacterial Screening”. He stays at B-PHOT as post-doc. 🔗 More via https://www.b-phot.org/news/mehdi-arash-feizpour-defends-phd-on-intelligent-bacterial-screening-with-advanced-nanophotonics.

Are you an Engineer or Biomedical Engineer at Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or Postdoc level? Curious about where your skills could take you next? Explore fresh career opportunities at the intersection of health and innovation. 👉 Don’t miss out! Register now via b-phot.org/360CARLA/Hea...