Christian Gontrand

Christian GONTRAND was born in Montpellier, France, on February 21, AC 1955.

He received the M.S, Ph.D and the State Doctorate degree, respectively in 1982 and 1987, in electronics, from the Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier , France.

From 1982 to 1984, He has been working with the Thomson “Laboratoire Central de Recherche“(LCR), Orsay, where his areas of interest included theoretical (electrical transport) and experimental (noise) of microwave devices (TEGFETs/HEMTs).

From 1988, he joined the laboratoire de Physique de la Matière (LPM/INSA), Villeurbanne, as a Research Assistant Professor. From 1988 to 1996, He had the technical charge of the new “Centre de Microélectronique de la Région Lyonnaise” (CIMIRLY), and worked on new RF compatible silicon devices, in collaboration with the Centre National des Etudes en Telecommunication (CNET), Meylan,France.

From 1997 to 2001, as a Professor in semiconductor devices and circuits, he was at the head of the team “Smart System Integration”, at the “Centre de Génie Electrique de Lyon” (CEGELY/AMPERE). On September 2001, he created the team “Radiofrequency Devices, Circuits and Systems”, at LPM Laboratory; He is now responsible of the axis: noises in mixed complex 2D and 3D RF circuits and systems, at the INL laboratory.

He has (co-)authored a ten of books, and was Editor, for France, of IJCTA, international Journal until 2013, and collection director for Connaissances et Savoir ( France - Quebec ) from 2015.