Dr Gaétan MESSIN Maître de Conférences, HDR. (Associate Professor)
Birth: April 21st, 1968. Marital Status: separated, one child. Nationality: French.
Institut d'Optique Graduate School 2 rue Augustin Fresnel 91127 Palaiseau Cedex, France Tel.: +33.1.64.53.33.81 e-mail :
[email protected]
TITLES 1991
Ingénieur de l’Ecole Supérieure d’Optique, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France (Master of Science and Engineering at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School)
1993
Specialized Master: Intelligence Marketing, at HEC business school, Jouy-en-Josas, France
2000
PhD in Physics in the field of Quantum Optics at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France (Ecole Normale Superieure, CNRS, University Paris VI).
2008
HDR Thesis (Habilitation to supervise research): “Light Sources for Quantum Information”, University Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France.
RESEARCH 2000 – 2001
Temporary Assistant Professor at the University Paris VI, Paris, France. Research topic: Single photons sources with CdSe nanocrystals (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel).
2001 – 2002
Post-doctoral associate at the MIT, Cambridge, USA. Research topic: Photon pair production by parametric down-conversion (Research Lab. of Electronics)
Since Sept. 2002
Associate Professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France Permanent member of the Quantum Optics group of the Laboratoire Charles Fabry. Past research topics: Single photon source and quantum cryptography, Single atom trapping and manipulation for quantum information, Production of pulsed squeezed states of light with atomic vapours, Present research topics: Plasmonic quantum optics ; Single CdSe emitters (collaboration with LKB)
Main Publications:
PRL 87, 127403 (2001) ; PRL 90, 120601 (2003) ; PRA 69, 041801(R) (2004) ; Science 309, 454 (2005) ; Nature 440, 779 (2006) ; Nature Physics 3, 696 (2007) ; Optics Express 18, 4198 (2010) ; … Complete list of downloadable papers: http://gate.free.fr
TEACHING At the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, since 2002: • Quantum mechanics, Atomic physics, Light-matter interaction •
Probabilities and random variables, Stochastic processes and noise
RESPONSABILITIES •
In charge of the harmonization of education on the 3 campus of Institut d’Optique (Bordeaux, St-Etienne, Paris-Saclay).
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Deputy Director for Education of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School, 2011-2013.
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In charge of the 3rd year of the "Ecole d'Ingénieur" of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School in Palaiseau, 2008–2013. Member of the Laboratory Council and the Education Council of the Institut d’Optique Graduate School.
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In charge of Academic relations with China at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School ; member of the China Admission Program board of ParisTech, representing Institut d’Optique Graduate School, since 2008 ; Chairman of ParisTech delegation for China from 2011 to 2014.
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Director of the CNRS Sino-French international research network on Quantum Manipulation of Atoms and Photons (GDRI QMAP 2010-2014) ; co-organizer of three conferences in China, QMAP 2008, QMAP 2011, QMAP 2015, and one in France, QMAP 2013.
