Jaume Pujol

Jaume Pujol received his BS in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1981 and his PhD from the same university in 1990. Since 1984 he teaches vision sciences and color at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His research work is primarily focused on color and multispectral imaging, industrial colorimetry, and visual biophotonics. He is the author of more than 80 papers, more than 175 communications in international and national conferences, 4 books in physiological optics and color, holds 9 patents and has supervised 9 PhD theses. He has been responsible for more than 50 research projects for public agencies and private companies, and organizer of several scientific conferences. He has been director of the Optics and Optometry Department (1994-2000) and Center for Sensors, Instruments, and Systems Development (CD6) (1997-2009), president of the Spanish Color Committee (2007-2010) and the main entrepreneur of the spin-off company VISIOMETRICS S.L. At present, he is the director of the DAVALOR Research Center (DRC).