Marc Lethiecq

Marc Lethiecq graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and received the DEA (MSc) in Acoustics followed by a Doctorat d'Ingénieur (PhD) in Non Destructive Testing in 1988, all from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Lyon, France. He has been with the University of Tours since 1990, first as an assistant professor and since 1994 as full professor. Previously, between 1984 and 1987, he had been teachning and research assistant at INSA-Lyon and between 1987 and 1990 he had worked as a research engineer on ultrasonic transducers for biological and medical applications for Vermon S.A. and CNTS. His research is focused on piezoelectric materials and devices for ultrasonic and energy conversion applications. He has been teaching electronics, feedback control, applied physics and courses related to his research activities since 1984 in several universities and engineering schools. From 2012 to 2019 he was director of GREMAN, a joint research laboratory between University of Tours, CNRS and INSA Centre Val de Loire on materials, microelectronics, acoustics and nanotechnologies. He is currently Director of Education of INSA Centre Val de Loire, member of INSA group, the leading public group of Engineering Schools in France.