Francois Ladouceur

Associate Professor, Head of Photonics Group

	Telephone:	+61 (2) 9385 5304
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	Room:	344B, EE Building

Qualifications

	B. Ing. - Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1985.
	M. Sc. - Solid State Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1987.
	Ph. D. - Optical Telecommunication, The Australian National University, 1992.

Awards and Honours

	National Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada) Post Graduate Scholarship, 1988.
	The Australian National University Post Graduate Scholarship, 1990.
	Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board (ATERB) fellowship, 1990.
	National Science and Engineering Research Council (Canada) Post Doctoral Fellowship, 1992.

Employment

	Managing Director, Bandwidth Foundry MNRF, Sydney, 2001-2003.
	VP, Network Simulation, Virtual Systems Inc., Berlin, Germany, 1998-2001.
	Research Fellow, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1994-1998.
	Research Engineer, Laboratoire d'Électronique et des Techniques de l'Information (LÉTI), Grenoble, France, 1992-1994.

Research Interests

	Integrated optics Modelling and optimisation of photonics devices
	Hybrid integration
	Photonics interconnects
	Holography and interferometry

Professional Interests and Industrial Consulting

	Commercialisation of R&D
	Technology mapping of industry activities
	Software development.

Selected Publications