Georges BOULON

Claude Bernard University Lyon1, France

Emeritus Professor at Institut Lumière Matière (ILM), UMR5306 Université Claude Bernard Lyon1 (UCBLyon1) and CNRS in France. Doctor honoris causa of the Autonomous University of Madrid and University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona in Spain as well as University of Wrocław, Poland. An honorary member of the Academy of Sciences, Literature and Art in Lyon, a visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Sendai in Japan and Oklahoma City University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison in USA and Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, China. He has been awarded by ICL’2011 International Prize from “Journal of Luminescence” Elsevier, in Ann Arbor, USA and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. 

He is physicist specializing in atomic and molecular spectroscopy of luminescent inorganic materials. His main interests are focused in structural and spectroscopic studies of d-and f-elements-doped inorganic optical materials in the form of single crystals, polycrystalline transparent ceramics and glasses with potential applications for lasers, phosphors, scintillators.