Franck Levassort

Franck Levassort was born near Paris, France. He received the bachelor’s degree in applied physics and the D.E.A. (M.Sc.) degree in physical acoustics from University Paris 7-Denis Diderot, Paris, in 1990 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in ultrasound from the University of Tours, Tours, France, in 1996. From 1997 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor with the Institute of Technology, University of Tours, where he has been a Full Professor of electrical engineering since 2014. Since 2016, he has been a Deputy Director of the GREMAN Laboratory, Tours, France. His current research interests include design, modeling, and characterization of piezoelectric composite materials and structures, as well as transducers for imaging applications.