vincent berger

Vincent Berger was born in Saint-Amand, France, in 1967. He graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. From 1990 to 2001, he worked in the Physics Laboratory of the Laboratoire Central de Recherches, Thales (formerly Thomson CSF), on optoelectronic devices such as midinfrared detectors and nonlinear optics in heterostructures (frequency conversion), including photonic bandgap materials. In 2000, he became a Professor at the University Denis Diderot-Paris 7, and is now the Head of the Quantum Phenomena and Materials Laboratory, University Paris 7. He introduced different schemes of phase matching nonlinear optical processes in semiconductor waveguides, and for this work he received the Fabry-De Gramont award and the MIT Young Innovator award in 2002. He has published around 100 papers in international journals and has 15 patents.