Following the Photons: A Photonics Podcast

This episode features Andrew Strikwerda, a senior applications manager at COMSOL. He talked recently with Host Justine Murphy during the COMSOL Conference Boston 2026 about some exciting things happening at COMSOL, including the release of its enhanced Multiphysics platform. They also discussed his research background and how that translates to his current work, and he offered some thoughts on the future.

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.