Romain Fleury

EPFL STI IEL LWE
ELB 033 (Bâtiment ELB)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne

Romain Fleury leads the EPFL Laboratory of Wave Engineering. He has obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, working with Prof. Andrea Alù. In 2016, he was a Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at ESPCI Paris-Tech and CNRS Langevin Institute, in Paris, working with Profs. Geoffroy Lerosey, Fabrice Lemoult and Mathias Fink. He started at EPFL in 2017, in the Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering, within the EPFL School of Engineering. His research interests include a wide variety of topics in the field of wave physics and engineering, including periodic structures, nonreciprocal wave propagation, classical topological insulators, active and time-modulated metamaterials, etc. He has co-authored more than 70 articles in scientific journals, including Science, Nature, and various Physical Review journals. He has received in 2018 an Eccellenza grant from the SNSF, and in 2021 an ERC Starting grant. He has served as Technical Program Committee chair of the European conference Eucap 2019 (1200 submissions), and editorial board member of the New Journal of Physics (IOP). He is the recipient of various teaching awards, including the 2019 STI Polysphere award and a IEL best teacher award. Finally, he is the co-founder of Minwave, a company supported by the European Space Agency, selling miniaturized microwave devices based on an invention patented by his laboratory. Minwave received various tech transfer awards, including ESA-BIC CH, FIT and Venture Kick. More information is available at https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lwe/ and
https://www.minwave.ch/.

Awards

2019 STI Polysphere

AgePoly - EPFL student association

2019

Best teacher

Institute of Electrical Engineering

2019

Eccellenza award

Swiss National Science Foundation

2021

ERC Starting grant

European Research Council

2022

Venture Kick

Venture labs

2022

2021 Brillouin medal

International Phononics Society

2023

Peer-reviewed publications

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Shreesh Mahapatra, Hossein Allahverdizadeh, Senlu Zhou, Amirhossein Sotoodehfar, Hossein Talebi, Alireza Mafi, Ahmet Bilir, Junda Wang, Tim Tuuva, Karim Kouny, Tristan Nerson

Past EPFL PhD Students

Farzad Zangeneh Nejad, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Aleksi Antoine Bossart, Rongrong Xiang, Zhe Zhang, Haoye Qin, Ali Momeni

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Mathieu François Padlewski

Courses

Antennas

EE-446

The students will first learn the fundamental principles governing antennas and get familiar with the main antenna types. In the second part, students will work in groups on an antenna design project. Through this, they will learn to use common simulation tools, and perform antenna measurements

Electromagnetics I : Transmission lines and waves

EE-200

The electric signal is the essential vehicle for transmitting information and energy. At high frequency, it shows itself as an electromagnetic wave whose study calls for the development of physical and mathematical models based on the wave equation.

Electromagnetics II : field computation

EE-201

This course deals with electromagnetism in free space and in continuous media. Starting from the basic principles, we establish the methods for solving Maxwell's equation in vacuum and in more complex material media.

Introduction to wave scattering

EE-737

This advanced theoretical course introduces students to basic concepts in wave scattering theory, with a focus on scattering matrix theory and its applications, in particular in photonics.