Ileana Rau graduated in 1994 from the University Politehnica
of Bucharest, Romania. She has obtained her PhD degree in
2002 at the same university. She has spent several years as
post-doc, first at French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
laboratory in Saclay and then at Angers University, where she
received the Habilitation Degree (HDR, habilitation pour
diriger les recherches). Currently Ileana Rau is Professorat
University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
Ileana Rau has
made significant contributions to the development of optical
materials science and to the understanding of linear and
nonlinear optical properties of organic materials and their
application in photonics and biophotonics. She made also
important contribution in popularizing nonlinear optics and
material science through organization of international
conferences, workshops and editorial services.
Ileana Rau is
fellow of SPIE and member of SPIE Women in Optics circle.
Francois Kajzar graduated from Jagellonian University,
Krakow, Poland in 1965 and has got PhD degree at the same
university in 1970. He is considered as one of the pioneers of
organic nonlinear optics, contributing to its development
through original experimental techniques, material
development, nonlinearlight propagation description and new
fields openings.
F. Kajzar contnbuted also significantly
towards the popularization of photonics by organizing
international conferences, workshops and schools as well as
editorial services. He is Laureate of European Descartes Prize,
recipient of Rockard Prize and Eminent Scientist of Riken
(Japan). Most of his scientific career is with French Atomic
Energy Commission (CEA), where he was working as
Research Director.
After retirement from CEA he became
professorat Angers University (France) and at Politehnica
University of Bucharest (Romania).