On March 25th, Roel successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride based waveguides”.

Roel’s contributions to research in our group over the past few years have been remarkable. He unlocked the first on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering signal in our group. Additionally, he advanced the SBS signal by employing tellurite-covered silicon nitride waveguides. Furthermore, he explored new Brillouin-based applications, i.e. Brillouin dynamic gratings.

Roel will start his new career as the integrated optics system architect at LioniX. Congrats, Roel! And good luck!