Dr Laurent Canale, CNRS Research Engineer, Mission Head of the University of Toulouse 3 delegated to Environmental Management and Energy Transition, was born in Saint-Martin d'Hères in 1972, he obtained his Masters in Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Automation, telecommunications option, in 1996 at the University of Savoy, his DEA in High Frequency Electronics and Optoelectronics in 1998 at the University of Limoges and defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Limoges in 2002. He is now Research Engineer at the CNRS at the LAPLACE laboratory, Toulouse (France). In 2004, he obtained by competitive examination the position of Research Engineer at the National Institute of Agronomic Research in the BioEmCo laboratory (Bio-geochemistry of Continental Environments) before joining the CNRS in 2010 at the LAPLACE Laboratory. After specializing in semiconductor physics, then a thesis in materials sciences applied to optical telecommunications, he specialized in science and technologies of light sources and lighting systems within the Light and Matter team (LM ). Its field of expertise extends from semiconductor physics to optics, including power supply electronics, telecommunications and lighting systems applications and their impact on energy consumption, smart-lighting, 5G and telecommunications, the environment, ecosystems and humans, health, etc ... from the light source to applications and their impacts. He has published more than 40 articles in referenced scientific journals (index H = 10 according to scopus), more than 90 communications in national or international conferences as well as popular scientific articles in various books. He has supervised 4 doctoral theses, 2 of which are in progress, as well as around ten co-supervisions of PhD students. He is currently the coordinator of a Hubert Curien Program "Maghreb" called "MELINA" (Mastering Efficient Lighting In North Africa) with Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria and of a PHC Nusantara with Indonesia. He has also been Regional President of the French Lighting Association since 2014, Senior Member of IEEE since 2019 and President of the ILDC (Industrial Light and Display Committee, IEEE, USA) since 2022.
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