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Marc Fontoynont

Marc Fontoynont is French academic who has been professor in the Danish national building research institute (SBI) at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark and Ecole nationale des travaux publics de l’Etat (ENTPE) in Lyon, France. He led research energy efficient lighting, window and shading systems, innovative electric lighting and lighting quality assessment using visual psychometric tests.

Fontoynont was involved in the lighting design of the Salle des Etats. He led a team that developed a light projector using 7 color LEDs to improve the rendering of the painting ''Mona Lisa''. He also coordinated the development of a new version of the lamp, using 32 color channels.

Fontoynont has been coordinator of European research programs related to daylighting of buildings. He was appointed by the International Energy Agency to act as coordinator of the task IEA 4E SSL-Quality assurance of LEDs. He also acted as convenor of the CEN standardization work group CEN TC189-WG11 “Daylight”. Provided by Wikipedia