April 10th 2025 To support its ongoing growth and industrial scale-up in integrated photonics packaging, PHIX has appointed Thomas Hommes as Head of Strategy. In this newly established role within the management team, Thomas will guide the company’s long-term...
November 5th 2024 She graduated from Cambridge, worked on human face robots in Hong Kong, interned at NASA and studied at MIT. Now she runs an organic farm near Rossum and works as Manufacturing & Automation Engineering Team Leader at PHIX. The story of Grace...
September 11th 2024 Jeroen Duis becomes Chief Technology Officer of PHIX The technology roadmap of PHIX is closely matched to the industry trends and customer needs that help us reach our ambitious goals. To further improve the synergy between our technological and...
July 1st 2024 Sales Account Manager Roelof Brits explains how an ex-helicopter pilot fell in love with photonics and the Netherlands He used to be a helicopter pilot, flying in Afghanistan and Northern Africa. Now, his fascination with photonics brought him to the...
May 30th 2024 Production operator Keerthigan Shanmuganathan talks about big changes in his life and his Sri Lankan roots It has been a big year for Keerthigan Shanmuganathan. He began working at PHIX in October 2023 and, in a way, the new job also started a...
February 14th 2023 ‘Almost Dutch’ financial administrator Carl Whittaker talks about his work at PHIX and life in Enschede Although Carl has moved halfway across the globe to end up in Enschede, The Netherlands, few people can match the level of stability that he...
December 20th 2022 At the end of the year many of us enjoy some time off with loved ones and take a moment to reflect and express gratitude. At PHIX we look with fondness to all the connections we made and strengthened in 2022. In a literal sense, we connected...
October 26th 2022 Count the bats hidden on the PHIX website and win a $50 gift card! Let’s have a little Halloween themed fun! We hid some little pictures of bats all over our website. Can you tell us how many there are? From the people submitting the correct...
October 21st 2022 To celebrate the Day of Photonics, PHIX provided a guest lesson about photonics at a high school in Hengelo Building a fascination for photonics Although integrated photonics is taking big steps toward entering our households, it is still far from...
PHIX design engineer Nienke Nijenhuis is a self-proclaimed homebird within a very international team. In this column In The Spotlight we get to know her a bit better! Born and raised in the Twente region of The Netherlands, Nienke Nijenhuis never lived more than 6...
