Prof. Paul French received his BSc in physics (1983) and PhD in laser optics (1987)

from Imperial College London, where he joined the academic staff in 1994, having

previously worked at the University of New Mexico (1988) and at AT&T Bell

Laboratories, (1990/91). Today his research group is based in the Physics Department

at Imperial and in a satellite laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute. His research has

evolved from ultrafast dye and solid-state laser physics to biomedical optics for

applications in cell biology, drug discovery and clinical diagnosis. Current interests

include the development and application of multidimensional fluorescence imaging

technology for assays of biomolecular interactions, super-resolved microscopy,

automated high content analysis, endoscopy and tomography, with an emphasis on

more accessible and sustainable instrumentation, including open-source approaches

to modular hardware, data acquisition and analysis.