Inge Nys graduated in 2013 as Master of Science in Engineering Physics with highest distinction at Ghent University and started working at the Liquid Crystals and Photonics group. She received funding from the Special Research Fund of Ghent University and from the Research Foundation – Flanders. In 2018 she finished her PhD and currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research is focused on the use of liquid crystals for tunable electro-optic devices such as diffraction gratings, lasers and smart windows. She stabilizes new (chiral) liquid crystalline superstructures with different alignment techniques and analyzes these structures with numerical simulations. Currently she is also working on detailed investigation of the liquid crystal configuration inside spatial light modulators and the application of liquid crystals for AR/VR applications.