Alexei Chelnokov

Alexei Chelnokov/Tchelnokov received the Ph.D. and HDR (Habilitation) degrees, both from the University of Paris-South. He is currently the Chief Scientist of the Optics and Photonics Department, CEA-LETI (Grenoble, France), and one of its Directors of Research. Formerly, he was Heading several optoelectronics-oriented labs of the CEA-LETI. He was educated with the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute (St.-Petersburg, Russia) and was with Ioffe Institute, CNRS Institute of Fundamental Electronics (Orsay, France), and Corning Inc. (France), with short stays with Polaroid Corp (MA, USA) and Thomson LCR (France). His research interests concern optoelectronic devices for tele- and data-communication, silicon photonics, solid-state light-emitting devices, and nano-optics.