The FONTE consortium is joining forces with the Aston Optica / SPIE / IEEE Student Chapter, organising an all-day Round Table Event, to commemorate International Women’s Week (7-11 March 2022), and celebrating Women in STEM Careers. The hybrid event (on-site at Aston University and online) features speakers, across genders, talking about their personal experience in moving…Read More »

In May 2021 Francesco Da Ros, FONTE Consortium Member and Senior researcher at DTU Fotonik, was selected Optical Society (OSA) Ambassador to mentor and inspire the next generation of students and early career professionals in the global optics and photonics community. READ MORE: https://bit.ly/2RzEoPXRead More »

On 4 Jun 2021 Francesco Da Ros (DTU) was invited Plenary speaker at ‘SBFoton International Optics and Photonics Conference (IOPC) 2021’ In addition, Stenio M.Ranzini (DTU and NBL) was a member of the Conference’s Technical Committee. https://youtu.be/Tl-Rqwm1Qxw?t=3822Read More »

The Student Chapter at Aston University and inparticular AiPT student members of SPIE, celebrates the Interntional Day of Light with ‘Illuminate‘, series of mini-events around campus.Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic rages across the world for over a year already, restricting many face-to-face activities in FONTE and other projects. Nevertheless, on 24 March 2021 FONTE ESRs Stenio and Vladislav, together with the Project Manger lead an online Outreach Activity with 95 invited MSc student in three photonics-related ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTERS DEGREE (EMJMD)…Read More »

Only a few months ago we would never have imagined the shape of the world today. We can hardly remember the times pre-COVID, when going to an international conference was considered one of the perks of working in science. Instead, in the COVID-dictated socially distant new world, we reduce our carbon footprint to next-to-nothing and…Read More »

Congratulations to Vinod BAJAJ, ESR at TU Delft currently on an 18 months industrial secondment to NOKIA Bell LAbs in Stuttgart, Germany, of having his latest paper published as first author.Entitled ‘Exact NFDM Transmission in the Presence of Fiber-Loss‘, and authored by Vinod Bajaj (TUD and NBL), Shrinivas Chimmalgi (TUD), Vahid Aref (NBL) and Sander…Read More »

On 24 Feb 2020 Christiane, Project Manger of FONTE-EID, lead an Outreach Activity aimed at student in two photonics-related ERASMUS MUNDUS JOINT MASTERS DEGREE (EMJMD) programmes:     SMARTNET, coordinated by Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT) at Aston University, is a collaborative two-year (120 ECTs) Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees programme with the goal to…Read More »

It’s Valentine Day 14 Feb 2020 and FONTE’s ESR1 Vadislav ‘Vlad’  Neskorniuk is spreading his love for Science, Technology and all things Optics.Together with Aleksandr ‘Sasha’ Donodin (ESR in WON-ETN; https://won.astonphotonics.uk) and Pavel Skvortcov, our three PhD students from Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies/Aston University are spending a day at a Birmingham Primary School with…Read More »

ESRs at AiPT, including FONTE’s own Vladislav Neskorniuk, are members of Brum-AI, an award-winning meetup Group (winning the Silicon Canal award for best tech meetup in 2019!) in Birmingham (‘Brum’). There are monthly sessions with talks and discussions about all things related to Artificial Inteligence: • Artificial Intelligence · • Natural Language Processing · •…Read More »

Congratulations!Dr. Francesco Da Ros (DTU Photonics, Technical University of Denmark), Member of the FONTE project and co-supervisor of ESR3 Stenio Ranzini (DTU and Nokia Bell Labs), has been awarded one of only 15 coveted Villum Young Investigators grants from the Velux Foundations for his project proposal Optical Processing Unit for high-speed AI systems (OPTIC-AI). Supporting…Read More »

With FONTE’s ESRs starting to go off to conferences presenting posters of their early results, here is a tale and some advice from no lesser than the renown SCIENCE Magazine, published in the November 2019 edition. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/766Read More »

On 25-26 Nov 2019 Microsoft Research (MSR) in Cambridge, UK organized a workshop where PhD students working on topics relevant to the next-generation cloud infrastructure in Europe were invited to participate. During this two-day workshop, the students had the opportunity to present their work to Microsoft researchers, learn about the research Microsoft is doing in…Read More »

On 25th November 2019 FONTEs ESR Vinod participated in the Bell Labs Students’ Day, one of three annual outreach and dissemination Nokia Innovation Days organised by FONTE’s industrial Partner Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart.Nokia Innovation Days are special customized for Nokia’s Academic Partners and for all students, who are interested to see the real life in…Read More »

Another Outreach Activity completed!Stenio participated in the DTU Project Day (https://www.fotonik.dtu.dk/english/education-ny/dtu-project-day-2019), representing the Machine Learning in Photonics Systems group. Speaking to a mixed audience of mainly to high school student from different backgrounds, Stenio was able to explain his research to an interested audience. The event at the DTU Fotonicks Department was well attended (and…Read More »

Stenio has been involved in a major public outreach event at DTU and Copenhagen. ‘Cultural Night‘ (https://www.kulturnatten.dk/en/Culture-night) is one of Copenhagen’s most attended cultural events. with 69.000 cultural passes being sold for this year’s event, Culture Night has the potential to reach a very large audience of local families.. More than 250 museums, theatres, libraries,…Read More »

FONTEs ESR Vladislav is part of the Aston team at Photonex Europe 2019 (9—10 October 2019; Coventry, UK), one of the UK’s premier events dedicated to photonics, imaging, lasers and optical technologies from pure research to development of bespoke advanced user solutions. This annual 2-day event in Coventry presents an important opportunity for AiPT to…Read More »

1 Jul 2019First Year Network Meeting and Workshop38oC in Stuttgart today, but it didn’t preventing us from having a hugely productive First Year Network Meeting and Workshop at FONTE’s Industrial Partner Nokia Bell Labs. All ESRs were able to hone their presentation skills and  improve on their public speaking competency. Their presentations detailing scientific progress,…Read More »

FONTE is co-organising the symposium  ‘Machine Learning in Photonics’, to be held at PHOTONICA2019 (University of Belgrade, Serbia, 26-30 Aug 20190). Among the speakers is FONTE’s own Darko Zibar (DTU). Read More »

FONTE is co-organising the Workshop ‘Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC)’ to coincide with the 21th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON2019 http://www.icton2019.com  at Angers, France, July 9th-13th, 2019‘This workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of optical communication, networks  and  communication  theory  to  identify  and  address  areas  where  machine  learning could be…Read More »

18-19 Feb 2019Serious scientific training was completed by FONTE ESRs this week when attending the 2-day Winterschool at Nokia Bell Labs in Stuttgart. Thank you to the organisers! The training material is now available for FONTE consortium members in the members-only area of the website.Read More »

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Date for your diary:The Mid-Term Check with the EC/REA has been confirmed for Fri 27 Sept 2019 in Dublin, Ireland. Note the co-located with ECOC2019, to reduce everyone’s tavel and FONTE’s carbon footprint.Read More »

FONTE has recruited its second Early Stage Researcher: Vinod Bajaj has started this week at TU Delft, where he will be working with Prof S. Wahls.Read More »

The FONTE position at Telecom ParisTech has been readvertised in EURAXESS. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found.Read More »

1 Nov 2018The FONTE position at Aston University has been readvertised in EURAXESS and the Aston University Recruitment Site  The deadline for application in 10 Dec 2018 or until a suitable candidate has ben found.Read More »

The FONTE consortium held a meeting during the ECOC 2018 conference in Rome Read More »

FONTE is still looking to recruit 2 ESRs (at Aston and TelecomParis Tech). Get in touch with us if you are interested.Read More »

11 Sept 2018:Vinod Bajaj has accepted the FONTE position at TU Delft, where he will arrive in November. Congratulations to both Sander and Vinod! More details to follow soon.Read More »

Say hello to Stenio Magalhães Ranzini,  our new ESR at DTURead More »

   15 June 2018: FONTE had it’s first network-wide gathering during the Kick-off meeting at Aston University (Birmingham, UK). The meeting also included a tour of AiPT’s brand new photonics facilities in the basement of Aston University. Still a small group we are looking forward to recruiting our Early Stage Researches (ESRs) very soon. Chocolates…Read More »

Hello World! FONTE has officially started today and will run until May 2022! Happy and fruitfull reseach to everyone!Read More »

We are recruiting! Full details of the 4 positions available can be found here. If this advert has expired please get in touch with the Project Coordinator Prof Sergei Turitsyn [s.k.turitsyn@aston.ac.uk] for a discussion about positions in FONTE (and other projects) currently available.Read More »