Round Table - "What's next?"
What comes next after a PhD? Doctors from EEATS or other doctoral schools will be present to testify about the impact of the PhD on their professional lives.
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Gauthier CHICOT
CEO & Innovation director de la Start-Up DiamFab
Gauthier Chicot, Ing., PhD, is the CEO and co-founder of DiamFab. After completing his engineering studies in Electronics at Polytech’ Grenoble, he earned his PhD in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology from the University of Grenoble in 2013. At the CEA and CNRS, his research primarily focused on ultra-wide band gap semiconductors, specifically the development of power electronics components using diamond. He particularly concentrated on optimizing the performance of these components in direct re... read more
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Kevin Parisot
Comedian, director, writer
Comedian, director, and writer with the collective La grosse Clique, which he co-leads, he is also a theater workshop instructor for Créarc and the Jean-Wiéner Conservatory in Échirolles. Kevin is bilingual in English and French and holds a PhD in cognitive science, with expertise in visual perception, attention, and eye movements. Today, he focuses on two main areas within the performing arts: his artistic creations (acting, directing, and writing) and the transmission of practices (theater and... read more
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Kyllian Millard
Photonic Design Engineer at Steerlight
Kyllian Millard holds an engineering degree in Physics Engineering, obtained in 2020 from INSA Toulouse. He went on to pursue a PhD at CEA-Leti focused on developing a complex routing system in silicon nitride integrated photonics, aimed at creating a projector for augmented reality glasses. He defended his thesis in November 2023. Since 2024, he has been working at Steerlight as a photonic design engineer, developing a third-generation LiDAR system.... read more
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Martial Defoort
CR CNRS at TIMA
Martial Defoort completed his master's degree at Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble (Condensed MaAer and Radiatioon Physics), aEer which he conducted a PhD on the nonlinear behavior of nano-resonators at low temperatures. Following this training in fundamental physics, he pursued a career in applied physics, focusing on micro/nano-sensors and their use in exotic regimes, which is currently at the core of his research as a CNRS Research Scienttist at the TIMA laboratory.... read more
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Mathilde Billaud
Researcher at CEA-Leti
A chemical engineer by training (Engineering School of Chemistry in Montpellier, with a specialization in materials), she discovered microelectronics during her PhD at EEATS, carried out jointly at CEA-Leti and LTM (a CNRS laboratory). Her thesis, completed in 2017, focused on the integration of III-V semiconductor materials into MOSFET transistors. She then developed expertise in the environmental challenges of electronics at the Fraunhofer Institute (IZM) in Berlin, Germany, where she worked o... read more
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Sergio Vinagrero
Postdoc Candidate at École Centrale de Lyon
Sergio Vinagrero received his engineering degree from the University Carlos III in Madrid and received the PhD in Nanoelectronics in 2024 for his work on the modelling and analysis of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). He is currently pursuing a postdoc in Ecole Centrale de Lyon and TIMA Laboratory on the development of security protocols leveraging photonic PUFs. His research interests are on Hardware Security, Test and Reliability analysis.... read more
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Thomas Dalgaty
Expert Researcher at CEA-List
Undergrad studies at University of Glasgow and ETH Zurich. PhD between CEA-Leti and institute of neuroinformatics (Uni. Of Zurich). Researcher at CEA-List since 2020. Main publications in Nature, NeurIPS and CVPR on the topics of analogue, in-memory and in-sensor computing and computer architectures. CEA expert status since 2024.... read more