Georges Boulon

Background

About Georges Boulon

Research-Rare earth and metal transition ions-doped inorganic luminescent materials (single-crystals, glasses, transparent ceramics). Laser materials. Phosphors. Scintillators. Nonlinear crystals-Crystal growths, structural and spectroscopic characterizations mainly by laser spectroscopy. Excited state dynamics-Factor h=46 on 2021 (Web of science). 573 articles, 26 chapters of Books-Editor-In-Chief of « Optical Materials » 2003-2014:Elsevier. Impact Factor: 2.075-Guest Editor of 20 Special Issues in Scientific Journals-A special Issue in honor of Professor Georges Boulon for his outstanding contributions to Optical Materials. Optical Materials 63, 1-220 (January 2017). Edited by Dr Alok Srivastava, GE, NY Recent Invitations -Invited Prof. at the Polish Academy of Sciences with Prof. Wieslaw Strek and Dr. Dariusz Hreniak and at the University of Wroclaw with Prof.Janina Legendziewicz and Dr. Malgorzata Guzik (2-4 weeks every year)(2002-2020)-Invited Prof. in Brazil, University of Maringa and University of Dourados, COFECUB program (2007-2011), 3 weeks every year, with Prof. Mauro Baesso, Prof. Luis Andrade-Invited Prof. at Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan), with Prof. Fukuda (1996-2007) then with Prof. Yoshikawa (2008-2020).One/two months every year, 6 months in 2010-Distinguished Prof. at SIOM (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics), CAS with Prof Lili Hu and Prof. Wei Chen. One month in 2012, 2013, two weeks in 2014, 2015, 2019. Distinctions and Awards -Chairman of the International Program Committee of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LUMINESCENCE (ICL):after Beijing;2005, 3 conferences have been organized:Lyon 2008; Ann Arbor USA;2011; Wroclaw 2014. ICL is organized every 3 years since 1966-Doctor Honoris Causa of 3 Universities: Universidad de Madrid, Spain (2009), University of Wroclaw, Poland (2010), Universitat Roviri I Virgili,Tarragona, Spain(2012)-ICL’2011 Prize: International award from the research community of solid-state luminescence and attributed every 3 years by an International Committee and « Journal of Luminescence » Elsevier. July 1st 2011, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA -OSA Fellow from the Optical Society of America (2012)-« Chevalier des Palmes Académiques », France (2005)-Member of the « Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon » (2009)-Prize of the « de Lancey et de la Hanty Foundation » (United Kingdom) awarded by « Académie des Sciences, des Belles Lettres et des Arts de Lyon, France » (June 2015)-« Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite », France (2016)