Dr. Lucian PREJBEANU
Lucian PREJBEANU is a CEA research director, CEA fellow and director of SPINTEC research laboratory (joint research unit CEA-CNRS-UGA-Grenoble INP). Pioneer of thermally assisted MRAM work, awarded the European Descartes Research Prize in 2006, he participated in the creation of the start-up Crocus Technology and ensured the technology transfer, awarded in 2012 by the SEE-IEEE Brillouin prize. He is currently working on new MRAM and sensors concepts, multifunctional spintronic-CMOS hybrid devices and ultrafast hybrid spintronic-photonic circuits in the framework of several EU and industrial funded projects. Author of more than 130 publications and inventor of more than 50 patents, he is coordinator of the memory pillar of the European STF network, running member of the AdCOM of IEEE Magnetics, IEEE Senior member, co-director of the PTA, one of the 5 main academic nanofabrication platforms of RENATECH, member of the research committee of the Grenoble-Alpes University, member of the steering committee of the Federation of Micro and Nano Technologies in Grenoble, leader of the spintronics pillar of the EQUIPEX+ Nanofutur project and coordinator of the CPER AURA SPINFAB project, coordinator of the CEA national FOCUS thesis program on low power devices for microelectronics (fifteen funded PhD thesis). He is the co-director of the national exploratory program on spintronics, recently financed In France for a 8 years duration (2023-2031), for a total amount of more than 38M€.