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Jean-Pierre WOLF's CV
Date and place of birth
14.07.1960- Lausanne - Switzerland
Citizenship : French
Education
Habilitation Université Lyon 1 - 1991
Physics PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech., ETH), Lausanne- 1987
Physics Diploma, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne- 1984
Career/Employment
Professor and leader of the Biophotonics group at the University Geneva - 2005
Professor and leader of the group "Processus Ultrabrefs et Lasers Intenses (PUBLI)" at the University Lyon 1 - 1992
Visiting Fellow at Yale University - 1999-2000
Assistant Professor C1, Inst. Exp. Physics, Free University Berlin - 1989-1992
Co-founder of the private company "Elight Laser Systems GmbH", Berlin - 1991
Lidar Project Leader, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne - 1987-1989
Assistant, Inst. for Exp. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne - 1984-1987
Current Research Fields
Co-founder of the Teramobile Project (www.teramobile.org)
Lidar monitoring of the atmosphere using Terawatt lasers
Propagation of ultrashort and intense lasers
Non-linear spectroscopy of aerosols using femtosecond laser pulses
Detection of bacteria in air
Lightning triggering and guiding using ultra-intense lasers
Applications of coherent control in biomedical systems
Responsibilities
Member of the CNRS steering and evaluation committee, Paris, 2000-2004
Expert at the AFNOR-Standards Organisation ( France ) - 1998
Member of the National Steering Committee of the Universities - 1996 - 1999
Member of the ICLAS (International Committee for Laser Atmospheric Sciences) Steering Committee, 2000
Member of the Steering Committee of the Institut National de l'Environnement (INERIS) - 1999-2004
Expert at the DIN-Standards Organisation ( Germany ) - 1991 - 1998
Expert at the French Ministry for Research
Expert at the French Ministry of Environment
Project referee for the CNRS, French Ministry for Research, French Ministry for Environment, NRC Canada, Hong Kong Research
Awards
« Grand Prix de Physique » of the French « Académie des Sciences » - 2002
NATO Senior Fellow, 1999
Member of the "Institut Universitaire de France" - 1996
Technology Innovation Award of the city Berlin - Elight - 1993