Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

This episode features Dan Cherowbrier, CTO of Formula E, the U.K.-based all-electric car racing series. Host Justine Murphy talked with him during the COMSOL Conference 2026 Boston about the growing role of optics in auto racing, and about Formula E's multiphysics partnership with industry giant COMSOL.

In this second installment of our Expert Insights series, Dr. Yuping Huang, CEO and chairman of Quantum Computing Incorporated, discusses the growing alliance between quantum computing and classical photonics.

From Nobel Prize winners to Innovators Awards to PhotonicsNXT, this episode features a roundup of some of the amazing things happening in photonics!

This episode features Eric Diebold, vice president and general manager for Instrumentation, Software, and Informatics at Waters Biosciences. He was also founder and CEO of Omega Biosystems, a startup based on his postdoctoral research on high-speed imaging flow cytometry.

He talked recently with Host Justine Murphy about Waters Biosciences and his role there, the innovations he and his team have led, and what the future holds for the bio realm.

Here’s the second of a two-part series featuring Host Justine Murphy's chat with Dr. Garrett Cole, an associate professor and the Nelson E. Claytor Endowed Chair in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences.

In this episode, he talks about his numerous accomplishments and accolades, he reflects on his career and lessons learned along the way, and he offers some advice and insight for the next generation researchers and entrepreneurs.