John Weiner was formerly Professor at the Universite Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, and a visiting researcher at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research interests include atomic, molecular, and optical physics, laser-assisted inelastic collisions, atom cooling and trapping, studies of ultracold collision dynamics, manipulation of atoms and molecules by light forces issuing from nanostructures, plasmonics, surface waves, and light transmission through subwavelength apertures. He is the author of three books: Light-Matter Interaction: Physics and Engineering at the Nanoscale, Oxford University Press, 2013; Light-matter Interaction: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, 2003; Cold and Ultracold Collisions in Quantum Microscopic and Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
