Léopold Virot received the Engineer degree in optics, lasers, and plasma from Orléans University, France, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree from Paris-Sud University, France, in 2014. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in germanium on silicon avalanche photodetectors with STMicroelectronics and the Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale. He was a Research Engineer with Nanophotonics Laboratory, CEA-Leti, France. In 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with CEA-Leti, where he was involved in the integration of silicon photonics technology for MEMS and NEMS-based biosensing. Since 2018, he has been a Researcher with Silicon Photonics Integration Laboratory, CEA-Leti. His research interests mainly include silicon-based active and passive devices design, modeling and simulation for optical communications, quantum photonics, and emerging applications. He was the Recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) Conference, Japan, in 2014.