Yoan Léger

Yoan Léger received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, in 2007 for his investigation of the optoelectronic properties of individual II-VI magnetic quantum dots and the demonstration of the optical detection of a single magnetic atom spin in the solid state. He then joined B. Deveaud's group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, and focused his work on the nonlinear properties of semiconductor microcavities in the strong coupling regime, from polariton multistability and all-optical spin switching to superfluidity. Since 2012, he has been with the Fundamental Optics, THz & Optical Nanostructures Laboratory, Rennes, France, as a CNRS Researcher and works on the monolithic integration on silicon of nonlinear and active photonic devices. He is the co-author of 60 publications, counting more than 1100 citations. He is a reviewer for Nature publishing group and the APS society