FAMES Pilot Line Workshop at EFECS
December 4th, 2025
FAMES Pilot Line annual event: Latest Achievements & Next Steps
This workshop, held during EFECS 2025, will spotlight the latest results from the five FAMES technologies, provide an update on pilot line implementation, announce the dates and opportunities of the upcoming FAMES 2026 Open-Access Call, and introduce the FAMES Academy with its upcoming training schools.
Remember
Don’t forget to visit us at the FAMES booth on December 3-4, 2025!
We will be delighted to welcome you, whether you cannot attend the workshop or simply wish to get more information about the FAMES Pilot Line and its upcoming opportunities.
Programme
FAMES Workshop
Chair Person
Francine Papillon, FAMES Communication and Dissemination Lead, CEA-Leti
Bio - Francine Papillon
Francine Papillon is the Communication and Dissemination Lead of the FAMES Pilot Line, where she coordinates strategic communication, stakeholder engagement, and the dissemination of technical outcomes across industrial, academic, and policy communities in Europe. Her mission is to ensure that FAMES innovations contribute to a strong, connected, and accessible European ecosystem for semiconductor and microelectronics technologies.
Before joining the FAMES management team in 2025, Francine spent over a decade at CEA Grenoble, where she served as Head of GIANT Innovation Campus Programmes and Coordinator of the GIANT Executive Team. She represented the CEA in regional and European committees and led major initiatives supporting international collaboration, innovation outreach, and talent development. She created and managed long-lasting programmes ranging from international internships and workshops to career-development and science-promotion initiatives linking young researchers with industry.
Francine began her career in materials science and metallurgy, first at CEA Saclay and then at CEA Cadarache (1997-2001). She later joined Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) in 2001 as a visiting scientist and became Associate Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, contributing to research strategy and the management of large academic programmes. After returning to France in 2008, she coordinated research and education programmes at MINATEC before taking on broader strategic responsibilities at GIANT.
She holds a PhD in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Paris-Saclay (1997, Musée du Louvre) and an Engineering Degree in Continuum Mechanics and Structures from École Polytechnique Féminine (1993, France).
FAMES: Chips opportunities for Europe
16:00 – 16:20 p.m.
Dominique Noguet, FAMES Project Coordinator, CEA-Leti
Bio - Dominique Noguet
Dominique Noguet holds an engineering degree of the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in electrical engineering in 1992, and a PhD from National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble (INPG) in 1998. Then, he held several positions at CEA-Leti as a digital IC designer, lab manager and department manager.
He led many projects at a national level and in several European frameworks (FP5, FP6, FP7). In January 2023, he was appointed project manager for the France 2030 flagship project NextGen. He is currently the coordinator of the FAMES Pilot Line and reports to CEA-Leti’s CEO. Dominique is a CEA senior expert and an IEEE Senior Member. He has authored or co-authored ~100 scientific papers (several best paper awards), several book chapters and 15 patents. He was a reviewer and a member of scientific committees of many conferences and a member of journal editorial boards. He was conference chair and TPC chair of several international conferences.
Ferroelectric embedded non-volatile memories: what’s new in FAMES ?
16:20 – 16:35 p.m.
Gabriel Pares, Project Leader, CEA-Leti
Martin Landgraf, Research Management and Business Development, Fraunhofer IPMS
Bio - Gabriel Pares
Gabriel Parès has an Engineer degree in “material science” from l’Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, France and a postgraduate degree in “semiconductor material sciences” from the University of Lyon.
He has been working for 32 years in semiconductors and MEMS industry in industrial and R&D fields, formerly for STMicroelectronics and MEMScap, then he joined CEA-leti in 2004.
He is currently project leader at CEA-Leti in the Laboratory of Memories and Computing in charge of the workpackage dedicated to embedded Non Volatile memories of the FAMES pilot line.
Bio - Martin Landgraf
After completing his university master’s degree in economics, Martin Landgraf has worked for Fraunhofer in various positions for more than 15 years.
His experience includes working as a research manager coordinating larger semiconductor R&D projects and working as business developer in close cooperation with foundries, IDMs and startups..
He is currently the German coordinator of the PREVAIL Pilot Line, the preparatory project for the three EU CHIPS pilot lines.
Silicon Austria Labs as hosting site of the FAMES pilot line and development of RF self-biased circulators
16:35 – 16:50 p.m.
Jérémy Létang, Senior Scientist, Silicon Austrian Labs
Bio - Jérémy Létang
Jérémy Létang received the MSc and PhD degrees in Nanoscience and Physics from Université Paris-Saclay, France. His PhD topic was on chaotic states and modulation effects in spin transfer torque oscillators. He worked then on coupling spin waves and surface acoustic waves, and on spin accumulation in heavy metals. He moved to Villach, Austria, to join SAL as a researcher in 2022, to work various industrial research topic, including magnetoresistive current limiters and magnetic sensors related topics. Since 2025, he is managing the efforts to develop RF magnetic-based circulator at SAL within the FAMES pilot line.
Integration of passive components
16:50 – 17:05 p.m.
Dr. Cian Ó Murchú, Strategic Development, Tyndall National Institute
Bio - Cian Ó Murchú
Since FP5, Dr. Cian Ó Murchú has been involved in many successful proposals for EU projects from the early stages of concept development and consortium building to project execution and closure. Cian currently heads up the European funding office in Tyndall. Overall, Cian has won over €30M of competitive funding for Tyndall. More recently, he has coordinated the successful European Digital Innovation Hub proposal ENTIRE which is one of four EDIH projects funded in Ireland. He is currently coordinating the Horizon Europe Research Infrastructure project, INFRACHIP. Besides engaging with academic and industry collaborators and other research and technology organisations, Cian also participates in EC networking and consultation groups to create technology roadmaps such as the ECS Strategic Research Agenda as Chapter Lead on Agrifood and Natural Resources. He is currently on the Board of EPoSS, the European Platform on Smart System Integration. In 2024 he successfully led the submission of a bid to establish Ireland’s Chips Competence Centre (I-C3), aimed at assisting companies in accessing semiconductor research and training across Europe.
Environmental impact assessment for semiconductor manufacturing : Methodology and tool development
17:05 – 17:20 p.m.
Yannick Rivoira, Sustainability Project Manager, CEA-Leti
Bio - Yannick Rivoira
Yannick Rivoira is a sustainability engineer at CEA-Leti since 2022. He is especially involved in environmental impacts assessments for microelectronics industry. This imply methodological development, data collection and comprehension at process and fab level as well as understanding the environmental issues and reglementations. He is specifically in charge of the Sustainability work package for the european project FAMES.
A Strategic Year of Acceleration for FAMES ACADEMY
17:20 – 17:35 p.m.
Sana Ibrahim, Research Engineer, Grenoble INP-UGA
Bio - Sana Ibrahim
Sana Ibrahim received the M.S. degree in Wireless Integrated Circuits and Systems from Grenoble Alpes University (UGA), Grenoble, France, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies from TIMA Laboratory, UGA, Grenoble, France, in 2024. In 2025, she joined Grenoble Institute of Technology (INP), Grenoble, France, as a research engineer at Phelma within the European project FAMES. During her doctoral studies, her research focused on the design of a wideband, low-power RF front-end based on N-path mixers in 28nm FD-SOI technology.
Her current work involves on developing and contributing to a comprehensive curriculum covering both analog/RF and digital design flows, aimed to provide designers with the foundational knowledge needed to develop integrated circuits using FD-SOI technology.
How to access the FAMES Pilot Line technologies?
17:35 – 17:45 p.m.
Susana Bonnetier, FAMES Open Access ChairWomen, CEA-Leti
Piia Konstari, Director of Microfabrication Services, VTT
Bio - Susana Bonnetier
Susana Bonnetier is Open Access Chairperson of the FAMES Pilot Line. Her goal is to make “European-grown” advanced semiconductor technologies readily accessible to industry and academia. She means to contribute, along with the FAMES European Partners and other Chips Act pilot lines, to a pan-European semiconductor ecosystem with the best Europe has to offer in microelectronics technologies.
An MIT engineer with a solid experience in both industry and research in the USA and France, Susana first worked for General Electric, designing and building aircraft engines. After moving to France in 1990, she joined Saint-Gobain as Product and Market Manager. In 2001, she reoriented her career towards the semiconductor industry and, as R&D Engineer at Freescale Semiconductor, contributed to the Crolles 2 Alliance’s successful development of the 65nm and 45nm CMOS technology nodes. Since 2007, Susana has been research engineer at CEA-Leti. After heading a joint laboratory with a major French company, she became Carnot Program manager, piloting a 14M€ R&D budget and was VP of the Carnot Network and a member of its board of directors. Last year, she joined the FAMES Pilot Line management team.
Bio - Piia Konstari
Piia Konstari is Director of Microfabrication services at VTT. She is responsible for VTT’s pilot line services in microelectronics and quantum technologies and for successful commercialization of those. Earlier she was a Lead in Microelectronics and quantum technology at VTT, responsible for business development and commercialization activities in those areas, especially involved in the pilot line services. She was the project manager for the public procurement process of VTT’s 300-qubit quantum computer and has been involved in Finland’s quantum computer developments. Earlier she has also been leading BusinessQ, the Finnish quantum industry ecosystem. Piia has a background in semiconductor sales both from VTT as well as from Texas Instruments.
