Affiliation: University of Namur and College of Engineering, Department of Physics & Namur Institute of Structured Matter; University of Exeter, Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Sébastien R. Mouchet received his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Namur, Belgium. Since his MSc and PhD degrees, he has studied the physical origins of various visual effects evolved by natural organisms: from additive colours in photonic polycrystals and fluid-induced colour changes, to fluorescence emission in natural photonic structures and UV scattering in integuments. After the completion of his PhD degree in 2015, he spent about 5 years carrying out his research as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, UK. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Namur, where he was appointed honorary lecturer and later senior honorary lecturer. Since the beginning of his PhD degree, his research has mainly been supported by the Belgian National Fund for Scientificc Research (FRS-FNRS) through fellowships he secured, in addition to a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Excellence program WBI.WORLD, a grant from the Maturation Fund of the Walloon Region, and two grants from the Agathon De Potter Fund of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Dr Mouchet is an editorial board member of Data in Brief (Elsevier). He co-organised the Belgian editions of Photonics Online Meetup (bePOM) in 2020 and 2021, as well as the 2021 edition of the Living Light Conference series dedicated to Early Career Researchers.