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Laurent Dugoujon has responsibility for advanced R&D project management. He is currently appointed as VIZTA project coordinator, leading the project and interfacing with European authorities in collaboration with work package leaders and ST France and European affairs. He has a deep knowledge in semiconductors technologies and design of high speed mixed signal ICs and in Imagers where he coordinated French project DEMO3S. He also recorded some years in projects management for ST Space and Defense Business Unit, from Marketing studies to development and qualification for production in contracts with CERN, DGA, ESA and CNES. With this double competence, plus his natural communication skills, he will handle VIZTA coordination all along project duration.

François Gigon has 30 years’ experience in semi-conductor industry, taking part to several European projects (on technology development and device simulation), the latest being the on-going POLIS project. His technical background covers device design, simulation, parametric test, technology transfer and alignment, and technology development management, first for advanced CMOS, and today on Imaging processes. François will coordinate the technology developments for ST-Crolles plant and lead for ST the WP1 dedicated to dissemination and exploitation.

Delphine Le Cunff has more than 20 years’ experience in the field of metrology for semi-conductor industry. She received a PhD degree in Physics in 1996 and own an engineering degree in Materials Science from INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences). After several years’ experience as application scientist for a key optical metrology supplier, she joined STMicroelectronics in 2006 where she enlarged her expertise to the full panel of inline metrology techniques covering the needs for advanced technology nodes to 3D integration.  As STMicroelectronics Metrology Expert, she is deeply involved in the field of innovation for new metrology solutions through several collaborative projects with metrology suppliers and academics. Delphine is the WP2 leader for VIZTA.

Sandrine Lhostis has acquired a strong experience in Materials Engineering through diverse activities such a high-k materials development, physical characterization of Phase Change Materials for Memory applications or underfills benchmark and reliability studies for 3D IC integration. She is now in charge of advanced projects such as diverse filtering solutions for Imaging purposes within the 3DIntegration Team of Process Development group of ST SAS C2 in close collaboration with LETI teams. Sandrine Lhostis will contribute in WP2 achievements for VIZTA.

Dr. Stephane Monfray is the Principal Scientist in the Silicon Photonics team at STMicroelectronics in Crolles (ST SAS C2). Since 2008, he is a member of the STMicroelectronics Experts staff. He was involved in FP6 and FP7 projects (Nanocmos, Pullnano, Duallogic, COMPOSE3), H2020 (NEIRED) and led from 2012 to 2016 a national project (FUI) on energy harvesting. His experiences and expertise are on advanced CMOS, Energy Harvesting and IoT systems, and advanced active Photonic devices. His activities are now focused on the development of Photonic devices for datacom applications, and for new approaches (gyroscopes, sensors, LIDAR). He will be involved in WP4 for the development of OPA for medium range LIDAR.

Sara Pellegrini is a pixel architect leading the SPAD technology development activities in STMicroelectronics’ centre of competence for imaging in Edinburgh and working on the lock-in pixel technology development. Sara has been with STMicroelectronics since 2006, initially with a key responsibility in the characterization of image sensors and currently a leading role in the photonic pixels development team due to her experience in the field. Sara has authored and presented several papers on SPAD and SPAD-based systems and is part of the committee of the International SPAD Sensor Workshop and IEDM conference. Sara will be VIZTA Work Package Leader for WP2.

Karine Perin is graduated with a Master’s degree in Image and CAD engineering from the University Joseph Fourier Grenoble. Karine has spent time in numerous roles including software engineer at Ubisoft and Xilinx, hardware verification and virtual platform engineer for Image Signal Processor at ST-Ericsson and STMicroelectronics. Since 2014, she is involved in architecture studies to embed computer vision algorithms in smart sensors. For POLIS and Nano2017, she took care of partners support to embed algorithms in ST double stacked sensor computing layer. Karine is the Work Package 3 Leader, coordinating all the applicative demonstrations proposed in VIZTA.

Bruce Rae is the Photonics Pixel & Silicon Architecture team manager and SPAD Architect with STMicroelectronics, Imaging Division, Edinburgh, UK. In this role he works in close collaboration with the silicon, process, module and system R&D teams to define and develop the Imaging Division photonics pixel roadmap and specification. In addition to his contributions to VIZTA, he works with external collaborators on advanced R&D. He received the MEng and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2005 and 2009 respectively. He is a member of the technical program committee for IEEE ISSCC.

Aurore Lepecq started working at ST in 2006. As application engineer, she worked on different kind of products and developed knowledge in various domains, including Electronic and Optics. Since 2014, she is managing illumination solutions development for Imaging products division. She’s responsible to guaranty optical conditions during validation and test of these products. With Physicians engineering degree and her past experiences, she has the background to design lighting solution with a global view, integrating optical constraints, but also electronic, thermal and mechanical constraints too. She is contributing to the WP3 of VIZTA with application support of ST innovative sensors.