Vincent Bouchiat (born 1970) is a French

condensed matter physicist Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the su ...

and entrepreneur. He was a

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

research director from 1997 to 2019. In 2019 he co-founded the company Grapheal

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, of which he is currently CEO.

Early life and education

Bouchiat was born to

Claude Bouchiat Claude Bouchiat, born 16 May 1932, is a French physicist, member of the French Academy of sciences. Biography Graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1955, he was director of research at the CNRS in the theoretical physics laboratory of the � ...

and

Marie-Anne Bouchiat Marie-Anne Bouchiat-Guiochon (born 1934) is a French experimental atomic physicist whose research has included studies of neutral currents, parity violation, and hyperpolarization. She is an honorary director of research for the French Nationa ...

, both of whom were physicists. Vincent Bouchiat followed his studies in Paris partially at the

Lycée Henri-IV The Lycée Henri-IV is a public secondary school located in Paris. Along with the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, it is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and demanding sixth-form colleges (''lycées'') in France. The school educates more than ...

. In 1993, he received an engineer degree from the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry of Paris

ESPCI ESPCI Paris (officially the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris; ''The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution'') is a prestigious grande école founded in 1882 by ...

in 1993 and a master's degree in solid state physics from the University of Paris, Pierre & Marie Curie. After completing his Ph.D. at Quantronics group in CEA-Saclay in 1997 under the supervision of

Michel Devoret Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopi ...

and Daniel Estève.

Career

Directeur de recherche

Bouchiat became a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1997. He was affiliated with the

Institut Néel Institut Néel is a research laboratory in condensed matter physics located on Polygone Scientifique in Grenoble, France. It is named after scientist Louis Néel. The institute is an independent research unit (UPR2940) of the French Centre nat ...

in Grenoble from 2012. Bouchiat also became invited professor in 2007 at the Physics department of

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

Grapheal SAS

In 2019, Bouchiat co-founded the company ''Grapheal

'', where he is currently CEO. It is a startup focusing on the healthcare applications of graphene.

Research

Bouchiat's PhD thesis is recognized as a pioneering study in the field of quantum computing hardware, showing the

quantum superposition Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. It states that, much like waves in classical physics, any two (or more) quantum states can be added together ("superposed") and the result will be another valid quantum ...

of charge states in a single Cooper pair box. This experiment paved the way for the realisation of a

charge qubit In quantum computing, a charge qubit (also known as Cooper-pair box) is a qubit whose basis states are charge states (i.e. states which represent the presence or absence of excess Cooper pairs in the island). In superconducting quantum computing, ...

. Bouchiat's research interests cover a wide range of solid state physics and multidisciplinary investigations which include

quantum information Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both th ...

superconductivity Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike ...

, carbon nanostructures (

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

and

carbon nanotube A scanning tunneling microscopy image of a single-walled carbon nanotube Rotating single-walled zigzag carbon nanotube A carbon nanotube (CNT) is a tube made of carbon with diameters typically measured in nanometers. ''Single-wall carbon na ...

s), bioelectronics and translational research research in medical sciences .

Awards

Bouchiat has won the following awards: * Visiting Miller Professorship Award (2007) from Miller Institute at

* Lee-Hsun Research Award (2017) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Metal Research)

Personal life

Vincent has a sister,

Hélène Bouchiat Hélène Bouchiat (born 1958) is a French condensed matter physicist specializing in mesoscopic physics and nanoscience. She is a director of research in the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with the Laboratoire ...

, who is also a physicist.

References

External links

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LinkedIn profile
*PhD manuscript fil

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