“For that, B-PHOT Student Chapter has planned an extended list of activities ranging from educational to socialising and having fun together, and also to become part of the holiday celebrations, such as sending a funny Sinterklaas postal card. This year, we introduced the panel discussion series with the first event titled ‘Photonics Club Panel: featuring PhD students‘ on November 27th, where all members can exchange ideas in a relaxed and informal environment.”
“We are planning to have a panel with alumni of our department to show us how studying or working at B-PHOT impacted their life. We are also planning to introduce a new series of events called ‘Professors tell-all‘ where we can finally quench our curiosity about their life and career. Also our mark events ‘Light Night’ and ‘Photo contest’ will take place, where we all come together to talk about light, enjoy captured beauty of light by the cameras of the very passionate ones, announce the contest winners and award the gifts, as always.”
“The latest developments show light at the end of the tunnel, which gives us hope that soon we would be able to meet and organise activities in person. We are looking forward to the campfire during the summer where the days become longer, and the sun shines brighter; we miss that!”
“Moreover, this year B-PHOT student chapter was awarded with the EDI grant for our activity ‘Queer in Science’. We will become part of the VUB and the city of Brussels celebrations of Pride 2021, acknowledging this way the importance of diversity and inclusion as well as promoting ourselves as an open-minded team. There is so much we are looking forward to so, we invite you to join our excitement! And as always, you can join and follow our events on social media.”