Claude LORY
President
Claude defended a Ph.D in the field of Ceramic Materials Science and Surface Treatments at the University of Limoges at the end of 1988. Following his doctoral work, supported by the University laboratory, he founded an innovative start-up on February 1, 1989, for the development of coatings for anti-wear and anti-friction protection of mechanical parts: SOREVI (80 employees by the end of 2007), which became a world leader in the field of engine components for motorsport (F1, NASCAR, WRC, Moto GP, etc.), and is now a unit of the Oerlikon – Balzers group.
From 2008 to 2013, he led the Incubator department of AVRUL (Agency for the Valorization of University Research in Limousin), where his goal was to use his experience to support the creation of innovative companies.
Between 2013 and 2018, he headed the European Ceramic Competitiveness Cluster before founding, in 2007, a new start-up called Biopythos with three partners, which develops and manufactures ceramic containers for wine cultivation.
Ling Yan ZHANG,
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Ling Yan received a masters degree in Industrial systems engineering in 2006 and a master degree in electronic, instrumentation and photonics from the University of Calais in 2007. In 2010, he received a PhD in high frequency electronics on « tunable RF circuits » from the university of Brest. Then he joined XLIM laboratory for 2 years as an engineer where he was designing and fabricating new generations of Biosensors (BioMEMS). In 2013, he took a active role in AirMems component optimization and creating the company.
Pierre BLONDY,
Scientific Advisor and Founder
Pierre received the Ph.D. and habilitation degrees from the University of Limoges (FR) in 1998 and 2003, respectively. From 1998 to 2006, he was with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, as a Research Engineer with the Xlim Laboratory, where he began research on radio frequency microelectromechanical system technology and applications to microwave circuits. He is currently a Professor at the University of Limoges, leading a research group on radio frequency microelectromechanical systems (RF MEMS) and he holds an Institut Universitaire de France chair, to conduct research on innovative microwave circuits. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1997, and at the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, in 2006 and 2008. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 papers in refereed journals and conferences proceedings. In 2011,he was the recipient of the MTT-S “Outstanding Young Engineer Award” for his research on RF MEMS. In 2012, he took an active role in AirMems’ component design and created the company in 2013.
