Jean-Pierre Wolf

Wolf was born in Lausanne and studied physics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, where he received his diploma in 1984 and PhD in 1987 under the supervision of Ludger Wöste. He received habilitation from the University of Lyon in 1991.

His research activities are related with applications of ultrafast spectroscopy for biological, medical, and environmental research.{{Cite web|title=Research :: GAP Biophotonics|url=https://www.unige.ch/gap/biophotonics/research|access-date=2021-09-19|website=www.unige.ch}} He is working with Jérôme Kasparian on laser beams to control the weather.{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/24/tech/laser-cloud-seeding-mci/index.html | title=The man who wants to control the weather with lasers | publisher=CNN | work=Jacopo Prisco | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=25 April 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=54771 | title=Conference to Explore Laser-based Weather Control | publisher=photonics.com | accessdate=25 April 2015}}{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/10268455/Weather-could-be-controlled-using-lasers.html | title=Weather could be controlled using lasers | publisher=The Telegraph | date=27 August 2013 | accessdate=25 April 2015}}{{Cite journal |last=Wolf |first=Jean-Pierre |title=Short-pulse lasers for weather control |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/aa8488/meta |journal=Reports on Progress in Physics |date=2018 |volume=81 |issue=2 |pages=026001 |doi=10.1088/1361-6633/aa8488|pmid=28783040 |bibcode=2018RPPh...81b6001W }} The technique is similar to cloud seeding, and could potentially influence the triggering and guiding of lightning.{{cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/24/tech/laser-cloud-seeding-mci/index.html | title=The man who wants to control the weather with lasers | publisher=CNN | work=Jacopo Prisco | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=20 September 2017}}

In 2018, he is one of the two winners of the ZEISS Research Award for his research on high intensity lasers and their applications to atmospheric sciences.{{Cite web|url=http://optics.org/news/9/2/22|title=Swiss pair share 2018 Zeiss Research Award|last=Ltd|first=SPIE Europe|website=optics.org|access-date=2018-02-19}}

Since 2017 his group is taking part into the Consortium of the European project Laser Lighting Rod. In 2023 the LLR consortium demonstrated the first guiding of natural lightning over more than 50 m using laser filamentation.{{Cite journal |last1=Houard |first1=Aurélien |last2=Walch |first2=Pierre |last3=Produit |first3=Thomas |date=2023-01-16 |title=Laser-guided lightning |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z |journal=Nature Photonics |language=en |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=231–235 |doi=10.1038/s41566-022-01139-z |pmid=36909208 |issn=1749-4893|arxiv=2207.03769 |bibcode=2023NaPho..17..231H }}{{Cite web |last=Prisco |first=Jacopo |date=2021-07-12 |title=Scientists are trying to control lightning with a giant laser |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/europe/laser-lightning-rod-wolf-spc-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-01-08 |website=CNN |language=en}}

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• [http://www.communicators-circle.eu/2014/01/12/john-pierre-wolf/ Jean-Pierre Wolf ]
• [http://www.laserweatherandclimate.org/ Laser Weather and Climate Conference]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053153/http://www.gap.unige.ch/biophotonics/people/J-P_WOLF_CV_April_2015.pdf Official CV]
• [https://www.unige.ch/gap/biophotonics Personal website]
• [http://www.unige.ch/gap/biophotonics/news/German-TV-BR-Fernsehen Interview of GAP Biophotonics leader Prof. Jean-Pierre Wolf on German TV BR Fernsehen]

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