Caroline Amiot is from Besançon, France where she studied Photonics at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté. During her studies, she visited Newcastle, UK and Tampere, Finland where she did her master thesis on the generation of broadband sources.

She continued her studies with a co-supervised PhD between France and Finland and got her double doctorate in 2018 from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté. Her doctoral dissertation was on “Novel Supercontinuum Sensing and Imaging Techniques in the Infrared”. After three years as a postdoc researcher in Tampere University and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, Caroline decided to change career and join the team of Photonics Finland.

Ana Gebejes will continue as a head of projects in Photonics Finland  part-time, she will also be working as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF).

In autumn 2021, Photonics Finland hads reached the magical number of 100 company and societal members! The 100th member is KxS Technologies Oy that provides digital measuring devices for process industry optimization. The company designs, manufactures, and distributes monitors that use refractive indices to measure liquid concentrations in the processing industry.

The history of Photonics Finland started in the year 1996, when the Finnish Optics Society was first established. In 2014 Photonics Finland was re-launched as a cluster together with 19 members to provide better service and visibility for industry and academia members.

Further reading: New Photonics Finland board, WileyIndustryNews, 13 September 2021