Mehdi Alouini received the M.S. degree in Optics and Photonics from the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, in 1997. After having graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, Orsay, France, in 1997, he received the Ph.D. degree in laser physics from the University of Rennes in 2001. He was with Thales Research and Technology, Palaiseau, France, as research scientist from 2001 to 2009. Since then, he joined the University of Rennes 1, France as associate professor then full professor where he led, up to 2017, the Optics and Photonics Department of Institut de Physique de Rennes. He served in parallel as scientific advisor for Thales from 2008 to 2019. He was appointed deputy director of Institut Foton from 2017 to 2021 and is since then director of Institut Foton. His research activities cover microwave and THz photonics, laser physics and advanced imaging. He authored or coauthored 130 papers in international peer reviewed journals and more than 250 communications. He holds 12 patents and has given more than 30 invited talks in international conferences. Prof. Alouini is member of the European Optical Society, IEEE Photonics and the Optical Society of America. He serves in the board of the French Optical Society and is member of the executive board of Photonics Bretagne.
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