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Prof. Roel Baets
Roel Baets is full professor at Ghent University and leads the Photonics
Research Group of Ghent University, a research group associated with IMEC. With
about 250 journal publications and 500 conference papers as well as about 15
patents he has made contributions to research on semiconductor laser diodes,
passive guided wave and grating devices and to the design and fabrication of
photonic ICs, both in III-V semiconductors and in silicon. His current research
interests focus on photonic integrated components for new application areas,
such as smart sensors and biomedical instrumentation. He has been granted
several scientific prizes and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Roel Baets is coordinator of the European Network of Excellence ePIXnet and of
the European "Erasmus Mundus" Master of Science in Photonics program
and is the director of the Center for Nano-and Biophotonics.
He has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for InSpectra and has received a
Methusalem grant for Smart Photonic Chips.
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Prof. Peter Bienstman
Peter
Bienstman was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1974. He received a degree in
electrical engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, in 1997 and a Ph.D. from
the same university in 2001, at the Department of Information Technology
(INTEC), where he is currently an associate professor. During 2001-2002, he
spent a year in the Joannopoulos research group at MIT.
His research interests include several applications of nanophotonics
(biosensors, photonic information processing, ...) as well as nanophotonics
modelling. He has published over 50 papers and holds several patents. He is a
member of IEEE-LEOS. He has been awarded an ERC Starting
Grant for Naresco.
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Prof. Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts is professor in
the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University - imec. He coordinates the
activities in the field of silicon photonics concerning process development,
all-silicon integration and photonic design tools.
Wim Bogaerts graduated in engineering (applied physics) at Ghent University in
June 1998 and a PhD in April 2004. Currently he is
active in the photonics group as a part-time professor and postdoctoral
researcher of the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO),
coordinating the silicon photonics work, with a stronger focus on active
elements and integration of silicon photonics with other technologies. He is a
member of IEEE-LEOS, Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE and the Flemish
Engineering Society (KVIV).
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Prof. Alberto Curto
Alberto
G. Curto obtained his BSc in Physics from the University of Salamanca (Spain) in
2007. Between 2008 and 2013, he worked towards his MSc and PhD in Photonics from
ICFO, the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona. Alberto worked as a
postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow at Stanford University (USA) from 2013 to 2016.
He was appointed Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in
2016. He received an NWO START-UP Grant from the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research in 2018 and ERC Starting Grant from the European Research
Council in 2020. In 2021 he was designated as OSA Senior Member of the Optical
Society.
As of June 2022, Alberto joined the Photonics Research Group at Ghent
University-imec.
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Prof. Bart Kuyken
Bart
Kuyken was born in Ghent,
Belgium, in 1985. He received the
BS and MS degree in
electrical engineering and the BS
in Applied Physics from Ghent University in 2008.
He received the MS degree in
electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 2009. In 2013, he received the PhD degree from
Ghent University for the PhD
'Four-Wave-Mixing in Dispersion-Engineered Silicon Nanophotonic Circuits for
Telecommunication and Sensing Applications'.
As a postdoc, he worked on the field of non-linear optics and
collaborated with colleagues from Université Libre de Bruxelles (B) and Lille
University (F). He has been a visiting scientist at the IBM TJ Watson
Research Center (US) in 2011 and 2012 and at the Max Planck Institute
for Quantum Optics (D) in 2013 and 2015. His work includes the integration of
nonlinear optical functions in silicon photonics waveguides, 2D materials and
THz waveguide integration.
In 2015, he has been appointed
Assistant Professor in the Engineering Faculty of Ghent
University. His main interests include
Terahertz Photonics.
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Prof. Nicolas Le Thomas
Nicolas
Le Thomas was born in Rennes, France, in 1974. He received the degree in
engineering from “École National Supérieure de Physique de Grenoble” (ENSPG) in
1998 and the PhD degree from “Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble” (INPG) in
2002. During 2002 and 2005, he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of
Dortmund in the group of Prof. Ulrike Woggon, working on the optical
spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals. From 2005 to 2011, he was research
associate at "École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (EPFL) in the group of
Prof. Romuald Houdré, working on the optical characterisation of photonic
crystals structures.
In 2012, he has been appointed professor in the Engineering Faculty of Ghent
University.
His main interests include photonic crystals structures, integrated photonic
sensors, biological applications of sub-wavelength photonic structures, optical
spectroscopy of nanostructures, and semiconductor lasers.
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Prof. Yanlu Li
Yanlu
Li is a part-time professor at Ghent University and is a staff member at imec.
He received a bachelor's degree in applied physics from Dalian University of
Technology in 2006 and the Erasmus Mundus Master degree of Science in Photonics
from Universiteit Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of St Andrews,
Heroit-Watt University and Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan (KTH)in 2008. He obtained
a PhD degree in Photonics at Universiteit Gent, where his research topic is
Miniaturized Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) Integrated on a Silicon Photonics
Platform. He has worked and is working for several research projects related to
LDV, including H2020 CARDIS, H2020 InSiDe, and H2020 PhotonicLEAP. His research
interest is in photonic integrated circuit techniques used for non-contact and
non-destructive sensing and imaging in various applications, including
biomedical sensing and imaging, structural health monitoring, and
non-destructive testing for materials and structures.
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Prof. Geert Morthier
Geert Morthier received the degree in electrical engineering and the
Ph.D. degree from the University of Gent in 1987, 1991, respectively. In 2001 he
was appointed parttime professor at Ghent University.
Since 1991 he is a member of the permanent staff of IMEC. His main interests are
in the modelling and characterisation of optoelectronic components. He has
authored or co-authored around 100 papers in the field. He is also one of the
two authors of the Handbook of Distributed Feedback Laser (Artech House, 1997)
and co-editor of the book ‘How to model and measure photonic components:
experience from a European project’ (Springer-Verlag, 1998). He has been the
project manager of the ACTS project ACTUAL dealing with the control of widely
tunable laser diodes and of the FP5 IST project NEWTON on new widely tunable
lasers. He is currently the project manager of the FP7 ICT project HISTORIC on
all optical logic and routing based on heterogeneous InP on silicon technology.
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Prof. Gunther Roelkens
Günther Roelkens was born in
Ghent, Belgium, in 1979. He received a degree in electrical engineering from
Ghent University, Belgium, in 2002 and a PhD from the same university in 2007,
at the Department of Information Technology (INTEC), where he is currently a
tenure track research professor. In 2008, he was a visiting scientist in IBM TJ
Watson Research Center, New York. He is currently also part-time assistant
professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
His research interest include the heterogeneous integration of III-V
semiconductors and other materials on top of silicon waveguide circuits, for
high performance photonic integrated circuits. He has published over 40 journal
papers and holds several patents. He is a member of IEEE Photonics Society.
He has been awarded an ERC Starting
Grant for MIRACLE, to start up research in the field of integrated
mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits.
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Prof. Kasper Van Gasse
Kasper
Van Gasse received a PhD in the Photonics Research Group, of Ghent University
and imec, in 2019 and a MSc in Engineering Physics at Ghent University in 2014.
For his PhD work on Photonic Integrated Circuits for 5G networks he received the
Nokia Bell Scientific Award 2020 awarded by Nokia Bell Labs and the FWO. In 2019
he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the FWO and developed integrated
mode-locked lasers at Ghent University and imec. At the end of 2019 he also
joined the Laser Spectroscopy Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum
Optics. Here he worked together with Theodore Haensch and Nathalie Picque to
develop dual-comb systems based on integrated mode-locked lasers. He currently
holds a postdoctoral fellowship of the FWO and a postdoctoral fellowship of the
Belgian American Educational Foundation. In the framework of the latter
fellowship, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Nanoscale and Quantum
Photonics Lab headed by Jelena Vučković at Stanford University. At Stanford
University he is working on developing integrated photonic circuits for quantum
optics and quantum metrology. Upon the completion of his research stay at
Stanford University, he is returning to Ghent University as Assistant Professor
in Integrated Quantum Photonics.
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Prof. Dries Van Thourhout
Dries
received the degree in physical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from Ghent
University, Ghent, Belgium in 1995 and 2000 respectively.
From Oct. 2000 to Sep. 2002 he was with Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories,
New Jersey, USA, working on the design, processing and characterization of InP/InGaAsP
monolithically integrated devices. In Oct. 2002 he joined the Department of
Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University, Belgium. Currently he is
member of the permanent staff of the photonics group. He is lecturer or
co-lecturer for 4 courses within the Ghent University Master in Photonics
program (Microphotonics, Advanced Photonics Laboratory, Photonic Semiconductor
Components and Technology). He is also coordinating the cleanroom activities of
the research group.
His research focuses on the design, fabrication and characterization of
integrated photonic devices. Main topics involve Silicon nanophotonic devices,
heterogeneous integration of InP-on-Silicon, integrated InP-based optical
isolators. Besides he is working on the development of new fabrication processes
for photonic devices, e.g. based on focused ion beam etching and die-to-wafer
bonding.
He holds three patents, has authored and coauthored over 60 journal papers and
has presented invited papers at several major conferences.
He is member of IEEE LEOS and associate editor for IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters. He is currently coordinating the EU projects WADIMOS and
SMARTFIBER. He has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for
ULPPIC.
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