Speakers

Nick is the chief technology officer at CSA Catapult and is responsible for the technical strategic direction of the organisation, focusing on power electronics, photonics, RF and microwave, and advanced packaging. Prior to joining the Catapult, he was CTO of PhotonFirst (Netherlands), a pioneer of PIC sensing and advanced packaging in markets such as aerospace, medical, automotive and energy. He began his career in electronics and semiconductors in the mid-nineties in France. He worked at Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology for over a decade and his team developed equipment and processes for epitaxy, deposition and etching. Nick was Group CTO at Scienta where he was responsible for technology and applications developments in XPS, graphene, OLEDs and plastic electronics. He was also CTO of a start-up for eight years where he helped scale up to deliver innovative Net Zero solutions and led overseas expansion. Nick is a fellow and chartered engineer of the UK’s Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET). He has a PhD in plasma physics and an electrical and electronics engineering degree, specialising in power electronics, from University Paul Sabatier Toulouse.