Research Grants

intern

National

Methusalem Grant	Roel Baets	Smart photonic chips	Smart photonic chips in support of a safe and sustainable world and of a better health care for all	2008-2015
		Smart photonic chips	Second phase (2015): Smart photonic chips at the heart of systems that matter to people and society	2015-2023

International: European Research Council

Starting Grant	Peter Bienstman	Naresco	Novel paradigms for massively parallel nanophotonic information processing	2010-2015
	Gunther Roelkens	MIRACLE	Mid-InfraRed active photonic integrated circuits for life sciences and environment	2010-2015
	Dries Van Thourhout	ULPPIC	Ultralow power photonic integrated circuits for short range interconnect networks	2011-2015
	Bart Kuyken	ELECTRIC	Chip Scale Electrically Powered Optical Frequency Combs	2018-2023
	Alberto G. Curto	CHANSON	Chiral semiconductor nanophotonics for ultraresolved molecular sensing	2021-2026
	Kasper Van Gasse	LASIQ	Photonic Laser Integration for Metrology and Quantum Systems	2022-2027



Consolidator Grant	Wim Bogaerts	PhotonicSwarm	Photonic Integrated Circuits using Scattered Waveguide elements in an Adaptive, Reconfigurable Mesh	2017-2022



Advanced Grant	Roel Baets	InSpectra	Silicon-photonics-based laser spectroscopy platform: towards a paradigm shift in environmental monitoring and health care	2011-2017
	Dries Van Thourhout	NARIoS	Nano-Ridge Engineering for Densely Integrated III-V Lasers Directly Grown on Silicon	2020-2025



Proof of Concept	Roel Baets	InBreathe	Integrated photonics for breath analysis	2012-2013
	Peter Bienstman	CuP	Circuit-level Photonic design	2013-2014
	Dries Van Thourhout	INTERDOT	INTERconnects enhanced by colloidal qDOT based optical amplifiers	2015-2016
	Gunther Roelkens	FireSpec	Integrated spectroscopic sensors for the risk assessment of fires	2016-2017
	Roel Baets	MIRASPEC	Miniature on-chip Raman spectrometer for personal volatile organic compound (VOC) monitoring	2018-2019
	Wim Bogaerts	LIQUORICE	LIQuid-crystal enabled Universial Optical Reconfigurable Integrated Circuit Engineering	2022-2023
	Bart Kuyken	COMB	High Speed Communication Links Based on Heterogeneous Chips	2022-2023

International: European Innovation Council

Pathfinder Open	Bart Kuyken	CSOC	Chip-scale Optical Atomic Clock (as coordinator)	2022-2025
	Peter Bienstman	NEHO	Harnessing plasmons for photonic neuromorphic computing (as partner)	2023-2025

Framework	Acronym	Title	Promotor
H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
	HOT	Hybrid Optomechanical Technologies	Dries Van Thourhout
H2020 Research Infrastructures (RI)
	SPICE	Spintronic-Photonic Integrated Circuit platform for novel Electronics	Dries Van Thourhout
H2020 LEIT - ICT
	PHRESCO	PHotonic REServoir COmputing	Peter Bienstman
	Cardis	Early stage CARdio Vascular Disease Detection with Integrated Silicon Photonics	Roel Baets
	InSiDe	Integrated silicon photonics for Cardiovascular Disease monitoring	Roel Baets
	MIRPHAB	MidInfraRed Photonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications	Gunther Roelkens
	NEBULA	Neuro-augmented 112Gbaud CMOS plasmonic transceiver platform for Intra- and Inter-DCI applications	Peter Bienstman
	NEoterRIC	NEuromorphic Reconfigurable Integrated photonic Circuits as artificial image processor	Peter Bienstman
	PhotonHub Europe	One-Stop-Shop Open Access to Photonics Innovation Support for a Digital Europe	Roel Baets
	Pix4Life	Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuit Pilot line for Life Science Applications in the Visible Range	Roel Baets
	Teraboard	High Density scalable optically interconnected Tb/s Board	Dries Van Thourhout
	Top Hit	Transfer-print operations for heterogeneous integration	Gunther Roelkens
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks
	MICROCOMB	Applications and Fundamentals of Microresonator Frequency Combs	Bart Kuyken
	OMT	Optomechanical Technologies	Dries Van Thourhout
	WON	Wideband Optical Networks	Gunther Roelkens
	Phonsi	Nanophotonics by Nanocrystals, from integration to single photon operation	Dries Van Thourhout
Interreg V 'France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen'
	SAFESIDE	Analysesysteem voor branden en gaslekken op basis van infrarood spectroscopie	Gunther Roelkens
	TERAFOOD	Compacte en lage kost Terahertz sensor voor het monitoren van voedselkwaliteit	Bart Kuyken

National

International: European Research Council

International: European Innovation Council

Track record Horizon 2020:

H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Networks