•   Laurent Malier
    CEA-Leti CEO

    Dr. Malier, a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique, earned a PhD in solid state physics in 1994.
    He began his career at the French Ministry of Defense leading R&D strategy and electronics programs. He was responsible for the European cooperation of Departments of Defense in electronic components.
    In 2001, he moved to Alcatel ptronics, a company producing optoelectronic components for optical telecommunications, heading new product development and, later, the company’s semiconductor business unit (which became Avanex in 2003).
    Dr. Malier came to CEA-Leti in 2005 as vice president of strategy and programs and was promoted to director in October 2006.

  •   Bruno PAING
    CEA-Leti – VP Marketing and Sales

    In 1998, Bruno Paing obtained his Master of Science in engineering specialized in electronics, digital communications, optoelectronics and telecommunications from the French “Supélec” engineering school and through completion of a one year training course in France Telecom focused on WDM Optical fibre transatlantic transmission. He also holds a MBA degree from EM Lyon (Management School) since January 2011.
    He spent 18 months in Taiwan in 1998-1999, appointed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to manage the franco-taiwanese scientific cooperation (French Institute in Taipei).
    In January 2000, He started at SAGEM as pre-sales engineer in charge of export technical support for optical network solutions which led him to become in 2001 Project manager at BIMSolutions and incorporated in a consulting mission at RTE (French Electric Transport Network) to implement billing tools in the scope of the French electric market extension.
    Bruno Paing was posted at the French embassy in Hanoi from 2002 to 2005, as scientific attaché. Therefore, he spearheaded the Franco-Vietnamese scientific cooperation in various fields such as nuclear energy, nanotechnologies, information technologies, social sciences, applied sciences, etc. along with academic and education cooperation projects and scholarship programs (>500 scholars). He also actively rolled out 3 research projects financed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    In 2005, Bruno Paing joined the technological research division of the French Nuclear Energy Commission (CEA) to work on strategic marketing issues. His task included building business development strategies and actively promoting MINATEC innovation campus towards potential international institutional and academic partners. In January 2008, he has been appointed deputy Director of MINATEC.
    Since September 2011, Bruno Paing is VP Marketing and Sales in CEA-Leti, the French applied research-and-technology for microelectronics Institute based on the MINATEC campus, Grenoble.

  •   Dr.Pierre Damien Berger

    Dr.Pierre Damien Berger was born in 1969. He graduated in optoelectronics engineer at Grenoble University France in 1993. He received his doctoral level for the work on VCSEL characterization at the INSA-Lyon, France in 1997. From 1998 to 2000, in a local public agency, he promoted the technological research from labs to industry in the sensor field. From 2000 to 2007, he has been appointed as R&D Program Manager at ATMEL Grenoble dealing mainly with CMOS Imaging sensor. He has been in charge of several European programs, and for most of them as project leader. He has also been involved as expert in the EURIMUS/EURIPIDES technical committee. From early 2007, he moved to MINATEC CEA LETI where he headed the Smart Device Programs within the System Department dealing mainly with industrial partnership. He moved early 2012 to MOVEA, a start-up company dedicated to motion sensing and set the product line for consumer market. Since beginning 2013 he has been promoted to VP BizDev & Communication at the CEA LETI Head Office.

  •   Philippe Ruffin
    Startup program Manager

    Philippe joins CEA-LETI in 2013 to set up a new entrepreneurship program to boost the creation of innovative startups out of LETI’s research activities.
    Philippe previously served as startup advisor at Grenoble’s public accelerator ‘Grain’, specializing in technology transfer to high tech companies in the fields of bio-technology, energy, microelectronics and ICT. Prior to that he held several marketing positions in the semiconductor and smart card industries, in both startups (Varioptic) and larger corporations (DeLaRue Card Systems, Gemalto, Atmel).
    Taking a break from the high-tech world in 2007, Philippe launched a retail brand specialized in fair-trade food items, relying on existing and developing new international and local, 100% fair trade supply chains. This was acquired in 2011 and is still active today.
    Philippe holds a Master of Science degree in Information Technology (systems integration) from Napier University, Edinburgh (Scotland).

  • Alain Merle
    CEA-Leti - Defense and Security activities

    Alain Merle is in charge of the coordination at the CEA-Leti for all the activities related to Defense and Security targeting the development of R&D programs towards industrial transfer and valorization. He is a recognized expert active towards various organisms such as ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), European Commission, ENISA, EOS and JHAS.
    In the 1990s, he initiated the commitments of the CEA-Leti in ICT Security with the development of an evaluation laboratory (CESTI) dedicated to the security of hardware components. He managed this laboratory for 7 years, driving it to an international recognition and a license by the major worldwide evaluation schemes (ANSSI, Common Criteria, EMVCo, Mastercard, Visacard).
    Prior to its involvements in ICT security, he worked on different projects concerning advanced software engineering closely coupled with hardware development such as Image processing, Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and Wireless network development.

    Alain Merle joined the CEA-Leti in 1984 after an Engineer diploma from ENSIMAG (« Ecole Nationale d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées ») of Grenoble (France) and a PHD in software Engineering In INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble).

  • Coralie Gallis
    CEA-Leti - Business Development Manager for Food industry and fitness.

    PhD in Materials Sciences from Paris 6 University and Physic-Chemistry engineer from Chimie Paris engineering school, Coralie Gallis worked for ASML, a Dutch semiconductor company in the Netherlands as Intelligent Specialist. After this rewarding experience, she joined IMEC in Leuven, Belgium as Business Development Manager for BioMedical electronics. Since 2009, She is part of the workforce at CEA/LETI with a first assignment as Business Development Manager for wearable electronics for biology and healthcare, and now as Business Development Manager for Food industry and fitness.

  • Ahmed Jerraya
    Head of strategic HW/SW integration for SoC programs

    Dr. Jerraya joined CEA-Leti in 2007 as research director and head of strategic HW/SW integration for SoC programs. Prior to joining CEA-Leti, he was research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He holds an engineering degree from the University of Tunis and two doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Grenoble.

  • Simon Deleonibus
    CEA-Leti - PhD, IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, CEA Research Director.

    MSc (1979) and PhD(1982) in Applied Physics from Paris University.
    Since 2008: Chief Scientist (Directeur Scientifique) at CEA- LETI - Silicon Technologies
    1999-2008: Director of the Electronic Nanodevices Laboratory(60 researchers) at CEA- LETI
    1996-1999: Leader of the Ultimate CMOS project at CEA- LETI
    1986-1996 CMOS and Flash memories Device Engineering at CEA-LETI
    1981-1986: Thomson Semiconducteurs (Grenoble): development and transfer to production.

    Published papers or submitted: more than 550 (conferences and journals ; 60 invited) . Editor of 1 book (WSPC). Guest editor of 1 Special issue of SSE. Author of 10 book chapters.
    Editor of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
    Editor of European Physical Journal - EPJ Applied Physics
    He owns 30 patents: among them the initial patent on contact plug principle, widely used as a standard process by the semiconductor industry.
    With his team, he realized the first 20nm gate length MOSFET, world’s smallest transistor in June 1999.
    International Conference program Committees. European Chair and Member of the VLSI Technology Symposium(from 2000 to 2006). Member of the 1998 and 1999,2004 and 2005 International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) program committtee. Member of the ESSDERC program committee since 2000 and Responsible for the ESSDERC2005 Tutorials. Member of the Program and Steering Committees of 5 International Conferences sponsored by IEEE and the Electrochemical Society. Member of the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductors(ITRS). Member of the Board of Directors of the Nanosciences Foundation. Member of the European Research Council Engineering Panel.
    Since 1998, he lectures on microelectronics devices physics and technology and nanosciences at different Institutions and Universities, in France and Worldwide.

    -“Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite” Decree of French Presidence .
    -Recipient of the “2005 Grand Prix de l’Académie des Technologies - Prix Chéreau Lavet”.
    -Recipient or co-recipient of 10 Best Papers Awards obtained at International conferences, among them IEDM 2009.
    Member of the Electrochemical Society ; Member of the Materials Research Society.

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