He received a PhD. in High Frequency Electronics and Optoelectronics from XLIM (France) (former Institut de Recherche en Communications Optiques et Microondes de Limoges) in 2001.
In December 2000, he was engaged as a R&D engineer at AIRBUS France, Toulouse (France), to study digital optical networks for on-board transmission systems in MEPHYSTO III (MEdium PHYSique Transmission Optique) and LOADNET (Low cost Optical Avionics Data NETworks) projects.
In September 2001, he joined THALES ALENIA SPACE France (former ALCATEL SPACE), Toulouse, to be involved in research activities on optical technologies and photonic systems for space applications.
He has authored or co-authored 50 publications and 4 patents.

Alain Bensoussan is Doctor Engineer in Applied Physics and his field of expertise is on microelectronic parts reliability at Thales Alenia Space. He is now full time seconded at Institut de Recherche (IRT) Saint Exupery, (Aeronautic, Space and Embedded Systems - AESE), Toulouse (France) as Technical Referent for microelectronic and photonic components reliability and recognised at Thales Alenia Space as Expert on optics and opto-electronics parts. Dr. Alain Bensoussan interests lie in several areas in microelectronics reliability and physics of failure applied research on GaAs and III-V compounds MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuits), microwave hybrid modules, Si and GaN transistors, IC’s and Deep-Sub-Micron technologies, MEMS and MOEMS, active and passive optoelectronic devices and modules.

Matthieu CAUSSANEL, 42 years old, is a physicist engineer graduated from the INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Toulouse, France. Since his PhD he has been studying radiation effects on optical fiber-based optoelectronic devices. Associate professor at the University of Perpignan, his main past and present collaborations involve the French Space Agency (CNES), Thalès Alenia Space, EDF R&D, and INPHYNI-CNRS. With the support of the CNES, he has created the RadFiber online database, which offers to the scientific community radiation-induced attenuation data measured on various commercial fibers.

O. Gauthier-Lafaye obtained his PhD in 2000 on optically pumped quantum cascade lasers in IEF-Paris. After 4 years in Alcatel’s research lab on telecom semiconductor lasers, he joined CNRS in 2003 to work on subwavelength periodic structures for optical devices. For the last years, its research focused on the use of these structures in novel, high performance,, embedded systems. He is currently head of the Photonic Group in LAAS-CNRS.

Sylvain Girard joined the CEA, France, in 2004, to develop radiation-hardened optical technologies and components for megajoule class lasers, civil and military applications. Since 2012, Sylvain is Full-Professor at UJM, managing industrial, European and national projects to design radiation tolerant cameras, fiber and fiber-based sensors. He is today the head of the LabH6 Joint Research Laboratory between the UJM, the CNRS and iXBlue on this research topic. He has published 195 journal papers, 2 book chapters, 5 patents. He is the recipient of the 2013 IEEE NPSS Early Achievements and of the 2014 IEEE Léon-Nicolas Brillouin Awards.

At Thomson CSF LCR, then at TRT, and now at III-V Lab, he has been working in the design, characterization and reliability study of laser and super luminescent diodes and amplifiers, for various applications (pump lasers, telecoms, microwaves, spectroscopy, atomic clocks and cold atoms sensors, medical). His current research activities are focused on laser diodes for atomic clocks, on ultrafast mode-locked high energy laser sources, on high power laser diodes for LIDAR applications, on super-radiant sources and on monolithic integration of a pump laser with an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO).

Giovanna Mura received the PhD. Degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Cagliari in 2004. Since 2012, she is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy. She teaches Reliability of electronic systems and Diagnostic of electronic devices in the MSc courses on Electronic Engineering. Her research activity is mainly focused on failure physics, diagnostics of microelectronics by electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and general methods for Reliability with a special emphasis on Photonic devices.

Jens W. Tomm received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany in 1982 and 1984, respectively. During 1993–1995, he was with Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1999 with Riken, Sendai, Japan, and in 2018 with the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He became a member of the scientific staff of newly founded Max-Born-Institute in 1995. There he runs the Optoelectronic Device Group. His research interests include photonics, optoelectronics, and applied semiconductor physics. Dr. Tomm organized international conferences, edited conference proceedings, authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, three reviews, six patents, and two books. He is a member of the German Physical Society, the MRS, the E-MRS, and Senior Member of the Optical Society of America.

Thijs van Leest is a researcher at Technobis Fibre Technologies, located in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. His work involves the development of FBG interrogation systems based on integrated photonics and FBG sensing applications for demanding environments, in various medical and aerospace applications. Previously, Thijs obtained his PhD at Delft University of Technology, on the field of integrated (nano)photonics and optical trapping of microorganisms.

Massimo Vanzi is Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, since 1992, after one decade in a telecom company, always working on Quality and Reliability of electron and photon devices.
He followed and contributed to the growth and assessment of Physical Reliability, including Failure Physics and Logics of Diagnostics along 30 years. He is member of the Steering Committee of the ESREF Symposium.
He launched in 2009 and chaired up to 2012 the first editions of ISROS in Cagliari, Sardinia. He is the official delegate of the University of Cagliari for Aerospace.

Margarita Varón received her B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2000. Then she obtained her M.Sc. degree in Optical Communications and Photonic technologies from Politecnico di Torino, in Italy, in 2003. In 2008 she received her Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France. Since 2010, she has been working as a professor with Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, her research interests are mainly in optical fiber sensors, optoelectronic oscillators and microwave photonics.