About the chair
With the chair Hamamatsu Applied Photonics Innovation Hamamatsu Photonics wants to support the ongoing photonics innovation activities at VUB B-PHOT. The chair is the ideal vehicle to intensify mutual contacts between Hamamatsu Photonics experts and B-PHOT researchers, to exchange information on the latest research breakthroughs and their potential applications, and to explore the opportunities of durable collaboration.
The chair is part of the Faculty of Engineering.
Fast forward to:
Photonics
Photonics is the science and technology of light. As one of the present-day key digital technologies, photonics is essential to the functioning of new applications addressing the enormous global societal and environmental challenges of our times. Photonics are being used to in a wide range of industries, from sustainable energy and food safety to digital health and security, smart transport, building and communications systems.
Research group
VUB B-PHOT is the research and innovation centre of VUB that focuses on the domain of photonics. It is an international community hosting 70 experts from 17 countries all actively involved in the continuous pursuit of excellence in photonics education, fundamental research, innovation and industry support, and STEM.
Objectives
The chair aims to:
- Introduce and review the progress of photonics research at VUB B-PHOT.
- Introduce and review present and future research, innovation, and technology needs in the field of photonics for which B-PHOT’s knowledge, expertise, and technology platforms could open pathways for jointly working towards solutions.
- Invite external speakers from third party institutions to give presentations on topics of joint interest to Hamamatsu Photonics and B-PHOT.
- Explore and define joint research and innovation topics to prepare a strategy that will lead to internships, joint research and innovation projects.
Chairholder
Prof. Dr. Ir. Hugo Thienpont
Prof. Dr Ir. Hugo Thienpont is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering of VUB. He is director of Brussels Photonics B-PHOT, the photonics research group at VUB, which he built over the years and which today counts more than 70 photonics researchers, engineers, technical experts and administrative staff. Since 2012 he is also Vice-Rector of Innovation and Industrial Relations at VUB.
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Academic chair details
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Type of chair: Innovation
Foundation year: 2019