Visit of Mrs Marie-Noëlle Semeria, 13-18 December 2012

Mrs Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Scientific Director of CEA-Tech (Technical research Division of CEA) will be on a five-day visit to India, from 13 to 18 December 2012.

Mrs Semeria is invited by the Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay (IIT Bombay) to deliver a keynote at the International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE)¹ , being held in Mumbai from 15 to 17 December 2012.

Mrs Semeria also intends to meet Indian officials and visit research institutes in order to examine scientific cooperation prospects between CEA and Indian organisations in the field of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.

About the CEA:
CEA is a French government-funded technical research organisation, employing some 16,000 staff, with an annual budget of 4.3 billion euros. CEA is a leader in Research, Development and Innovation in four main areas: Low-Carbon Energies (Nuclear Energy, New Energy Technologies…), Defence and Security, Information Technologies (Electronics, Micro and Nano Technologies, Software-Intensive Technologies…), and Health Technologies (Biotechnologies…). In each of these fields, CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research.

CEA-Tech is a division of CEA focused on innovation and technologic transfer to industry. It covers three Institutes based in Grenoble, Chambery and Saclay: Leti working on micro and nanotechnologies and their integration into systems, Liten turned towards new technologies in energy and nanomaterials, and List which cares about software intensive systems. CEA-Tech is among the major RTO (Technology Research Organization) in Europe with a workforce of 4500 researchers, a total budget reaching 500 M€ in 2012 , 40% coming from direct contract with industry, and with 500 patents per year .

For further information on the CEA: http://www.cea.fr/

¹http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~icee/