As part of International Women’s Day 2024 and this year’s theme of #inspireinclusion the Opening up Photonics team reached out to our community to find out their thoughts.

We asked them two questions:

1. What inspired you to go into photonics as a career?

2. What can we, the photonics sector, do to inspire more inclusion in our sector?

Click on the images below to scroll through and read the responses from our community.

1. What inspired you to go into photonics as a career?

2. What can we, the photonics sector, do to inspire more inclusion in our sector?

Interested in finding out more? Our chair of Opening up Photonics, Ben Hanley, Director at Enigma People Solutions, chatted in more detail with some women working in the photonics industry to get their experiences and insights. Take a look below.