The Computational Illumination Optics group is one of the few mathematics groups worldwide working on optical design problems from illumination optics. The team has a healthy portfolio of PhD positions and close collaborations with industrial partners. It consists of four full FTEs at Eindhoven University of Technology and one part-time professor.
The group has three research tracks: freeform design, imaging optics and improved direct methods; for more details see https://www.win.tue.nl/~martijna/Optics/. The following mathematical disciplines are important in our work: geometrical optics, ray tracing, (numerical) PDEs, transport theory, nonlinear optimization, Lie operators and Hamiltonian systems.