Prof Dr. Michel Jourlin | Brightness Inversion Award | Best Researcher Award 

Prof Dr. Michel Jourlin, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France

Michel Jourlin is an Emeritus Professor at the Hubert Curien Laboratory (UMR CNRS 5516) at Jean Monnet University in Saint-Etienne, France. He holds a State Doctorate in Pure Mathematics, which he earned with First Class Honours and special Congratulations in 1984. His academic career began as a senior lecturer at Jean Monnet University, where he established the Image Processing team at the TSI Laboratory, now part of the Hubert Curien Laboratory. In 1988, he became the head of the Electronics and Image Department at ICPI in Lyon and later, following the merger of ICPI and ESCIL to form CPE-Lyon, he served as the Scientific Director and head of the Electronics, Telecoms, and Computing section. He was instrumental in creating the LISA Laboratory (Image, Signal, and Acoustics), a CNRS-recognized research unit.

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Summary of Suitability for Best Researcher Award

Michel Jourlin is a distinguished Emeritus Professor at the Hubert Curien Laboratory, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France. With a State Doctorate in Pure Mathematics earned with First Class Honours and numerous contributions to the field of image processing, Professor Jourlin has demonstrated an exemplary academic and research career.

Education:

• 1984: Achieved a State Doctorate in Pure Mathematics with First Class Honours and Congratulations.

Work Experience:

• 1984: Began his academic career as a Senior Lecturer at Jean Monnet University, where he played a pivotal role in establishing the ‘Image Processing’ team at the TSI Laboratory, which later evolved into the Hubert Curien Laboratory.
• 1988: Became the Head of the Electronics and Image Department at ICPI, Lyon.
• 1992: After the merger of ICPI and ESCIL engineering schools to form CPE-Lyon, he was appointed Scientific Director of CPE and Head of the ETC section (Electronics, Telecoms, Computing). During this period, he was also instrumental in the creation of the LISA Laboratory (Image, Signal, and Acoustics), an EP CNRS unit.
• 2000: Joined the ISTASE engineering school (which became Telecom Saint-Etienne in 2008) as a Professor. In 2001, he launched the ‘Digital Image and Vision’ course at the school.
• 2003: Played a key role in bringing 3rd-year students from the Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, now IOGS, to Saint-Etienne to acquire image processing skills through a specialized ‘Image, Vision Signal’ Master’s course.
• 2008: Contributed to the creation of the ERIS group (Eclairage, Rendu visuel, Imagerie optique, Sécurité opto-numérique) within the Laboratoire Hubert Curien (UMR 5516) in collaboration with Pierre Chavel. He was responsible for Axis 1, focusing on ‘Lighting, Visual Rendering.’
• 2008-2015: Served as an Expert for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
• 2011-Present: Continues to serve as an Emeritus Professor at Jean Monnet University. Over his career, he has supervised 42 PhDs and 4 HDRs. His work on the Logarithmic Image Processing (LIP) model has garnered over a thousand citations, leading to numerous publications and the publication of a book titled ‘Logarithmic Image Processing: Theory and Applications’.

Michel Jourlin’s contributions to image processing, especially the LIP model, are widely recognized in the scientific community, and he continues to be an active researcher and reviewer for prestigious journals.

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