Jean-Pierre Nozieres

Dr. Nozières has more than 30 years of experience in research and industry, from start-ups to large corporations, both in France and in the US. Jean-Pierre is also the co-founder of the SPINTEC laboratory, one of the premier spintronics laboratories worldwide, which he directed for ten years. After a decade exploring disk drives technologies, he has been focusing for the past 20 years in magnetic random-access memory (MRAM). His commitment to finding practical applications for research has given rise to four startups: Crocus Technology (2006), where he served as Chief Technology Officer, eVaderis (2014), Antaïos (2016) for which he is actually appointed as Chairman & CEO, and Hprobe (2017). He has also worked at the French National Research Center ‘s Louis Néel Laboratory, IBM Almaden Research Center and Applied Magnetics Corporation (USA), amongst others. Jean-Pierre holds a Ph.D. in Physics from Grenoble University and an engineering degree from Grenoble INP, France. He is the inventor of multiple patented innovations (most of them licensed to the companies he created) and the author of more than 100 scientific publications. In 2017, he was awarded the CNRS Medal of Innovation in recognition for his outstanding contribution to technology transfer from research to market.