Jean-Pol Vigneron

Jean-Pol Vigneron was a Belgian physics professor. Jean-Pol started his career working on semi-conductor physics, however he is best known for his later work on the physics of animal colours, photonic crystals, and naturally occurring optical structures.
In 2007, he was elected a member of the prestigious Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium, he was also a professor at the Université de Namur and lectured at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and in Morocco. A conference in his honour was held in Namur in April 2014.
He is also known for having initiated the Living Light Conference series with the 2009 meeting in San Sebastian.