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Romain Fleury leads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, working under Professor Andrea Alù. Following this, he was a Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at ESPCI Paris-Tech CNRS Langevin Institute, Paris, in 2016, collaborating with Profs. Geoffroy Lerosey and Fabrice Lemoult. He joined EPFL in 2017 within the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering, part of the School of Engineering. His research interests encompass a wide array of topics within wave physics and engineering, including periodic structures, nonreciprocal wave propagation, classical topological insulators, and active time-modulated metamaterials. Fleury has co-authored over 70 articles in renowned scientific journals such as Science, Nature, and Physical Review. He has received several accolades including the Eccellenza grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2018 and the ERC Starting grant in 2021. Additionally, he has served as the Technical Program Committee Chair for the European conference Eucap in 2019 and is a member of the editorial board for the New Journal of Physics (IOP). He also co-founded Minwave, a company backed by the European Space Agency that develops miniaturized microwave devices based on patented inventions from his laboratory, which has garnered tech transfer awards.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne
Teaching and conducting research in wave physics and engineering.
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