Biography:

Paul Michael Petersen is Full Professor in New Light Sources at the Technical University of Denmark and he is chairman of DOLL – a Photonics Green lab that tests and develops new lighting technology based on LED and diode laser technologies. He has more than 30 years of research experience in laser physics, LED technologies, and optical measuring techniques. He has headed several collaborative research projects within photonics. From 2001 until 2007 he was head of Laser Systems and Optical Materials at Risø National Laboratory. From 2002 to 2011 he was adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University.