Thomas Zimmer

Thomas Zimmer (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in electronics from the University Bordeaux 1, Talence, France, in 1992. From 1989 to 1990, he was with the Fraunhofer Institute, Erlangen, Germany. Since 1992, he is with the IMS Institute, Talence, France. Since 2003, he has been a Full Professor with the University Bordeaux. His research interests are focused on electrical compact modeling and characterization of HF devices such as HBT (SiGe, InP), graphene nanotubes, and Graphene transistors. He was a cofounder of the company XMOD Technologies. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific articles, two books, and contributed to eight book-chapters. He currently holds four patents. Dr. Zimmer was a Reviewer for many journals (IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Searchable Symmetric Encryption, etc.), was the Technical Program Chair (TPC) of the ESSDERC 2012 conference and participated on the Program Committee of several conferences (IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, European Solid State Device Research Conference, European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, etc.). In 2018, he was the recipient of the Jan Van Vessem Award from the IEEE International Solid-State Circuit Conference.