Former student of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications, Thierry Gaiffe has acquired a long experience in the management of high technology companies. He started his career as Chief Technical Officer of Photonetics, an independent SME specialized in optical communication equipment. He then participated to the creation of IXBLUE, another independent high technology […]
Ernst M. Rasel is a full professor at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) and the Leibniz faculty for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST). He received his Ph.D. in 1996 from the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck for the demonstration of an atom interferometer based on diffraction gratings made of light in the group of A. Zeilinger. He […]
Christophe Salomon is research Director at CNRS, member of the Kastler Brossel laboratory at the Ecole Normale supérieure in Paris, and member of the French Academy of Sciences. A renowned specialist of laser cooled and trapped atoms, Christophe Salomon developed applications of cold atoms to the measurement of Time and to tests in fundamental physics. […]
Michèle Leduc is Research Director emeritus at CNRS in Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel at ENS in Paris. She first developed optical pumping of helium and new infrared lasers, which she applied to quantum physics and also to lung imaging with hyperpolarized gases. In the 90s she joined the cold atom group lead by Claude Cohen Tannoudji. All […]
Born in 1947, Alain Aspect is an alumnus of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (now ENS Paris-Saclay) and Université d’Orsay. He has held positions at Institut d’Optique, ENS Yaoundé (Cameroon), ENS Cachan, ENS Paris/Collège de France, CNRS. He is currently a professor at Institut d’Optique Graduate School (University of Paris-Saclay), and at Ecole Polytechnique, in […]
Arnaud Landragin is research director at CNRS and director of the laboratory SYstèmes de Réference Temps-Espace, a mixed unit of research between Observatoire de Paris – Université PSL, CNRS and Sorbonne Université. Doctorate in Physics in Institut d’Optique in 1997, he started his research activities in atom interferometry during his post-doctoral fellow in Yale University. […]
Philippe Bouyer is research director at CNRS and deputy director of the Institut d’Optique Graduate School in Bordeaux. He received his doctorate at Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1995 and was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford during which he worked on atom interferometer-based inertial sensor experiments. He joined CNRS and the Institut d’Optique Graduate School […]
Bruno Desruelle is the Chief Executive Officer of Muquans. He received his doctorate from University Paris XI for his work on Bose-Einstein Condensation in Alain Aspect’s group. He has acquired a solid industrial experience in the field of high-technology photonics business while working for Corning Incorporated in the field of DWDM optical communication systems, then […]