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In 2025, Finland’s photonics industry boasts over €2.5 billion in annual revenue, directly employing more than 7,500 people across 340 companies. Including indirect employment, the workforce exceeds 50,000. Notably, the industry added 1,500 new jobs in two years and plans…

Prof. Anne L’Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, and a Nobel laureate of physics (2023) gave a public lecture at Tampere University, and as a part of EOSAM 2026 conference in August, and got featured at Finnish national broadcasting company YLE. We,…

The Physics Unit of Tampere University is proud and honoured to announce, that Prof. Anne L’HuillierLund University, Lund, Sweden, will give a public lecture at Tampere University. Time: Wednesday, August 26th at 17:00 o’clock Place: Tampere University, Main Auditorium A210…

Welcome to ENS Faculty Regina Gumenyuk, Associate Professor, Photonics! Dr. Regina Gumenyuk received her PhD from Tampere University of Technology in 2014, where her research focused on nonlinear pulse dynamics in fiber-based cavities. Shortly thereafter, she was awarded a prestigious…

Photonics Infographics Booklet has been published for many years in English, now the booklet is available also in Finnish! Photonics Infographics Booklet illustrates informatively, yet in simple way, what it is about photonics in our daily lives. The photonics applications…

New Photonics in Finland brochure available! New statistics, news, interviews and more! Read online here

New freeware site for OpenAR2.0 DIY glasses now launched Freshly launched, the new freeware site for OpenAR2.0 glasses provides free guidance on how to build AR glasses at home, from start to finish, for just over 30 euros. The site…

The 2025 award of the Pirkanmaa Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation has been granted to Professor of Chemistry Arri Priimägi for his work on the interaction of light and material, and for boundary-crossing research leaps. The award is valued…

The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters can have at most 333 members under the age of 65 at any one time. The Academy has invited five top researchers from Tampere as new full members. A total of 33 researchers…