Jean Pierre Goure was a professor of optics at Jean Monnet University in Saint-étienne, France, and a director of the UMR 5516 laboratory linked with CNRS. An author of more than one hundred publications in fields spanning from spectroscopy, instrumentation, and sensors to optical fibers and optical communications, he has served as deputy director of engineering science at CNRS and is a member of several scientific associations, including the French Optical Society and the European Optical Society.