Jean-Charles GUIBERT

Graduated in 1981 from the Montpellier Institut des Sciences de l'Ingénieur (the university of science and technology in the Languedoc region), and in 1983 from the École d'Application des Hauts Polymères (the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg). In the 1980s and 1990s, he was in charge of lithography and then microelectronic programmes at the CEA and the LETI, one of the main research institutes in the field. In 2000, he was asked to take part in the project concerned with micro and nanotechnology innovation campuses which would become MINATEC. In October 2004, he was appointed CEA development director which includes being in charge of marketing, contracts, patents and the creation of start-ups. He has been the director of MINATEC since June 2008, and is in charge of making the MINATEC innovation campus an international point of reference.