Jean-Emmanuel Broquin was born in 1970. He received an engineering degree in Physics of Microelectronics Devices from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Grenolble (France) in 1993 and a Master degree in Optics Electromagnetism and Optoelectronics from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG,France) the same year. After the completion of his PhD on Erbium Doped Waveguide amplifiers in 1997, Jean-Emmanuel Broquin has been working on both active and passive ion-exchanged integrated optics devices.

Since 1999, he is an Associate Professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique et de Radioélectricité (Grenoble,France) where he teaches Optoelectronic and Integrated Optic Circuits to undergraduate and graduate students.

In 2001, he became Vice-Director of the GeeO and has been elected Head of the IMEP’s Photonic Group in 2002.

Jean-Emmanuel Broquin is co-inventor of international patents and has authored or co-authored several articles and conferences in the field of integrated optics devices.