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European Photonics Industry Consortium - EPIC |
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Short Profile of the Person:
Tom Pearsall graduated from Dartmouth College in 1968 and earned a Master’s degree at the University of London in 1970 and a Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in
1973. Following his degree work, he worked at Bell Laboratories Thomson CSF, and Corning He is a pioneer developer of InGaAsP and the inventor of the InGaAs photodetector. He has also worked on Si-Ge materials and devices, making the first transistors and detectors from these materials.
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In 1990, Pearsall was named the first Boeing-Johnson chair of semiconductor technology at the University of Washington. In 1996 Pearsall was named Fulbright Senior Scholar at the CNRS/Max-Planck-Institut in Grenoble, France. From 1998 to 2002, he directed research on planar photonic crystals at Corning in Fontainebleau, France.
In 2003, Pearsall started EPIC, The European Photonics Industry Consortium. EPIC has 80 members located in 16 countries of the European Union. EPIC has been a major contributor to the launch and the development of the European Technology Platform Photonics21.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Short Profile of the Company:
Photonics is the name of an important field that treats light, more specifically the generation, or the detection, or the control of light. Examples of photonic devices are solar cells, computer and television displays and energy-efficient solid-state lighting. The European Photonics Industry Consortium, EPIC, has three important activities: dialogue with the European Commission, ownership of the European roadmap for photonic technologies, and developing the critical human resource of trained scientists and engineers in the European economic area. EPIC organises and runs European workshops on various aspects of technologies related to photonics and nanotechnologies; EPIC-sponsored symposia are a regular feature of the annual European Conference on Optical Communications. There are now 80 companies, universities and research organisations that form the EPIC consortium.
EPIC is engaged in an initiative to build business relationships between our members and interested organisations in the Arab Gulf states, and to encourage cooperation where it makes good sense, in areas such as energy-efficient buildings, advance communications, and renewable energy. We are pleased to cooperate with SESAM and hope that we can help to amplify the effectiveness of SESAM and its programs.
The management of EPIC and its actions is based on consensus-building. The strength and influence of EPIC throughout Europe flows from this consensus. The strength of EPIC across the world is based on international cooperation. EPIC has played an important part in creating the Photonics-21 platform. EPIC initiated discussions to create the Platform with the European Commission in 2004, and EPIC members have worked together to promote and support its founding in 2005.
EPIC is a partner in 4 current European Commission Projects, Accord ( www.ist-accord.com) which arranges exchanges of prototype components and systems between companies and universities; OLED100.eu ( www.oled100.eu ) which develops energy-efficient lighting based on OLEDs; LIFT ( www.lift.eu ) which develops high-brilliance fiber lasers; and EuroPIC ( www.europic.eu ) which is creating university access to high technology integrated circuit manufacture.
Profiles of Staff members undertaking the work:
Dr. Thomas PEARSALL, has worked in photonics RTD for industry at Bell Laboratories, Thales-LCR, and Corning, and as an educator at the University of Washington. Since 2002, he is General Secretary of EPIC. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the author of over 200 scientific publications, 18 patents and several books, including Photonic Essentials, published by McGraw-Hill
Ms Martine Keim-Paray, is a member of staff at EPIC since 2005. She has responsibility for dissemination of information and maintains websites for EPIC and for a number of European projects. She has worked extensively in the scientific chemistry industry, most recently for Dynamit-Nobel.