Bio:

Deputy executive director of the Technological Research Division (4500p, 650M€/y) at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).

Co-leader of CEA’s quantum technologies program and acting co-pilot of the national priority research and equipment program on quantum technologies.

From June 2017 to august 2019  and  may to December 2020 he was senior advisor for research, innovation and industry at the cabinet of Professor Frédérique VIDAL, Minister for higher education, research and innovation in President Macron Government.

From January 1st 2016, to May 2017, he was director for Strategic analysis, member of the CEA executive committee after he had been appointed corporate Strategy and Programs Director in 2011 and Nanoscience Program Director in 2006. He was President of the High Performance Computing and Simulation steering committee at CEA 2016-2017 and the secretary of the Atomic Energy Committee 2010-2015.

He represented France in various international missions related to nanotechnology (OECD, High Level Groups, Japan-France FOE, EU-US coordination on nanotechnology…) and was expert for various national, EU and international funding agencies and programs.

He was a member of the boards of Genci (French supercomputing agency), Soleil Synchrotron, Ecole normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Paris-Sud University...

He was President of the Micro-nano sectorial scientific committee of the National Research Agency (ANR) and contributed to the development of nanotechnologies in France.

He was head of the CEA Molecular Electronics Laboratory (2001-2008), co-founder and head of the joint CEA-Motorola Molecular Electronics Laboratory (2001-2003), deputy manager of the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé (2005-2006).

He studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay , received a Ph.D. in Physical-Chemistry from Paris-Saclay University in 1991, did his post-doc with Dr H. Rohrer (Nobel Prize) and Dr B. Michel at IBM Rüshlikon in 1993-1994 and was delivered an Habilitation in solid state physics in 2001. His science and technology interests include nano and quantum devices, advanced nanoelectronics, nanomanufacturing, material sciences, information theory, new architectures of computation and AI, supercomputing. He published more than 100 scientific publications, cited ~3700 times (H-index=34), gave more than 75 invited conferences and obtained 12 patents.

He is Knight of the Ordre National du Mérite.