Herve Rigneault leads a group of researchers at the Fresnel Institute in France in the field of nanobiophotonics. Jean-Michel Lourtioz coordinates the French network on nanophotonics. Claude Delalande is currently working on the optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures and has been Director of the Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain since 1999. Juan Ariel Levenson is the leader of the Centre of Nanosciences of the Paris-Region, France.