Francis P DAWSON He received the B.Sc degree in physics and the B.ASc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in 1978, 1982, 1985, and 1988, respectively.

He worked as a process control engineer in the pulp and paper, rubber and textile industries during the period 1978-1980.

From 1982 to 1984 he acted as a consultant on various projects. Development areas included high-frequency link power supplies, power supplies for specialized applications and high current protection circuits.

Since 1988 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto where he is engaged in teaching and research. 

His areas of research interest include static power converters and their applications, signal processing in power engineering applications, energy storage systems and device or process modeling. He has also participated as a Consultant or Project Leader in several industrial projects. Dr. Dawson is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and is an IEEE Fellow.

Jean-Pierre LAURET Graduated from ecole superieure d’optique (aka ESO), France, year 1999.

From 1999 to 2004 : Optical design engineer - Optis (Toulon, France).

From 2004 to now : Optics R&D engineer, then optical developments manager – Gaggione (Montreal la Cluse, France).

My actual job is to design the standard and custom optical components manufactured by Gaggione. I started this activity alone, and because of the fast growing activity in the optical business, I am now in charge of a three people team. I have designed the complete range of Lednlight standard collimators as well as numerous custom optical systems dedicated to high power LEDs (traffic signalling, street lighting, architectural lighting…)

Christophe MARTY He has been designing for 10 years at Ingelux lighting schemes (electric light or daylight) focusing on high energetic and visual performance.

His schemes have been successfully applied to world renown projects in Louvre Museum, Eiffel Tower, award winning hospitals, and many non-residential buildings. Ingelux is involved in research programs on the lighting field, and has coordinated various programs for ADEME, ANR, CIE and IEA. Most of these programs are based on scientific process and use on-site validation with final users.

Mr Theo TREURNIET is working as Senior Architect Thermal Management at the LightLabs Laboratories of Philips Lighting.

In this role, he is responsible for introducing new cooling concepts and maintaining the thermal technology roadmap for LED lamps and lighting systems. He is leading a team of 10 thermal engineer who on the thermal challenges in high power LED systems.
 
He received his Master of Science degree (1997) from Delft University of Technology in the area of Applied Physics and completed his Ph.D. degree (2002) at Delft University of Technology with a thesis on Direct Numerical Simulation of Premixed Turbulent Combustion.

He joined Philips Lighting in 2002, where he started working the thermo-mechanical issues in ceramic HID lamps. Since 2004, he is working in the area of thermal management in LED systems.

Claude WEISBUCH was born in 1945.

He was an Assistant Professor, at the University of Paris, from 1969 to 1979 specializing in Solid State Physics.

He joined Bell Laboratories (Murray-Hill, NJ) as a Member of Technical Staff from 1979 to 1981, working on the optical properties of quantum wells.

He went to the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain as a “Directeur de Recherches” in charge of Exploratory Research from 1981 to 1983.

He was the Director of the Physics Laboratory in the Central Research Laboratories of Thomson-CSF from 1983 to 1992 and an Associate Professor of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique from 1984 to 1996.

He was chief scientist of the ministry of defense (France) from 1992 to 1998.

He is since 1997 a directeur de recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) with laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.

He is since 2002 distinguished professor in the materials department of University of California at Santa Barbara.

He is the founder and chief scientist of a high tech company, Genewave, Palaiseau, France, which he created in dec. 2001, devoted to new concepts in fluorescent biochips and molecular diagnostics systems.

He has authored or co-authored more than 180 papers, five books, 35 patents. He codirected 5 international schools or workshops on physics.

He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies, France, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He received in 1999 the Welker prize, awarded by the international conference on compound Semiconductors.

Mr Pierre LEFEBVRE is the Research Director with the French CNRS.
He spent most of his scientific career with the Semiconductor Research Group at the Montpellier II University, France.
He is a physicist specialized in the optical properties of low-dimensional semiconductor systems (quantum wells, quantum dots).

Since 23 years, he analyses these complex materials using a variety of spectroscopic techniques (photoluminescence, absorption, reflectivity) and he interprets his observations with the help of quantum-mechanical models. In the last twelve years, he devoted his research to nanostructures based on group-III nitrides (GaN, InGaN,…) and, more recently, to those based on ZnO and its alloys.

In August 2009, he joined as a visiting scientist the Institute of Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain.
He is currently working on structures based on semiconductor nanocolumns and on their applications to light emission, to photovoltaic devices and to new concepts of physical and chemical sensors.

Dr. Wouter KOEK is a consultant in the department of Customized Applied Metrology at VSL, the Dutch Metrology Institute. 

He serves on several (inter)national committees relating to Solid-State Lighting, and has initiated and executed numerous LED-related projects, both for industry and governments.

He also holds a PhD in applied physics from Delft University of Technology, and worked at several companies and research institutes prior to joining VSL in 2007.

Mrs Ling WU is the director of Beijing SSL S&T Promotion Center; director of National Solid-State Lighting Program Office; General Secretary of China Solid-State Lighting Alliance.

She organized “the Study of Long-term Development Strategy for New Materials” during “The Tenth-Five Year Plan” and the “the Study of Development Strategy for China SSL Industry” in “The Eleventh-Five Year Plan”.

Mrs Caroline CRESPIN Born the 29th of December,1974

Lighting Creative
www.crespin-lumieres.com

Private Aviation, 2009- Present
For AJWAA Alalam Aviation Services - For the A.C.J.C. (Airbus Corporate Jet Centre)

Commercial Aviation, 2004- January 2010
Central Entity Airbus S.A.S., Blagnac, Lighting designer.
Initiating and developing the activity with internal and external partners
(A350, LEDs technology new developement, softwares, mock-ups, network).

City Beautification, 2001-2004
Lightec Sarl, Boulogne-Billancourt, Lighting Designer
Design and managing lighting projects in publics areas,
From the conceptual phase to the delivery
(Presentation to the customer, on-site visits and phases follow-up).

Lighting- Events- Exhibitions
Experiments with Light and Public. For me art means searching with subjective means and feeling.
Artworks: lightings, drawings, pictures, mix
Papers  on Lighting through conferences and articles.

Mrs Mia PAGET’s primary areas of expertise are in mechanical engineering and energy policy, with a specific recent focus on solid-state lighting. She has developed and managed the DOE’s Solid State Lighting Commercially Available LED Product Evaluation and Reporting Program (CALiPER) since its inception in 2006, working closely with several stakeholder groups within the lighting industry, from luminaire manufacturers to lighting testing laboratories to standards committees to develop and apply measurement methods and analyze results of extensive product testing.


Ms. Paget also applies her expertise toward the research and development of “smart grid” solutions for the current and future energy grid and in human factors and situational awareness in power grid control systems in the US and internationally.

Mia Paget’s educational background is in Mechanical Engineering and Technology and Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees and gained expertise in measurement instrumentation, information technology, energy policy, and electric power systems.

Georges ZISSIS born in Athens in 1964, graduated in 1986 from Physics dept of University of Crete (Greece) in general physics. He got his MSc and PhD in Plasma Science in 1987 and 1990 from Toulouse 3 University (France).

Today, he is full professor in the Electrical Engineering Dept of Toulouse 3 University. He is working the domain of Light Sources Science and Technology. Prof Zissis is deputy director of LAPLACE, a join laboratory between Toulouse 3 University, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and CNRS.

LAPLACE represents a task force of 300 researchers. He is co-responsible of the “Light & Mater” research team that enrols 20 researchers. Prof Zissis won in December 2006 the 1stAward of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems. In 2009 he got the Fresnel Medal of the French Illuminating Engineering Society and he won the Energy Globe Award for France.

Today he is President of the Regional Branch of the French Illuminating Society (AFE) and National Secretary of the same organism. Since 1986 he published 4 chapters in books, 53 papers in scientific Journals. He presented more than 200 papers (including 20 invited lectures and 7 tutorials) in scientific events. He was advisor of 7 PhD students.