Stephane is Associate Team Leader (full lecturer equivalent) at the Institute of Photonics. He graduated in Optics and Optoelectronics in 1998 from the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Physique de Marseille (ENSPM, Marseille, France) and received his PhD in June 2002 from the Université de Franche Comté for his work on “Tunability and mode-locking of fibre lasers for telecommunications using integrated LiNbO3 components”. He joined the Institute of Photonics in December 2000, his primary research interests focus on novel semiconductor materials, vertical cavity devices (vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers, Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors, Vertical Cavity Amplifiers) and their applications. He currently serves as Chair the Scottish Chapter of IEEE/LEOS and was Vice Chair in 2005-2007.