Intravascular optical coherence tomography to characterize tissue deformation during angioplasty: preliminary experiments with artery phantoms

Sébastien Vergnole received an engineering school diploma in Physics from “Centrale Marseille” (France) in 2001, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Limoges (France) in 2002 and 2005. At that time, he was with the Photonics team of the XLIM laboratory and his research interest was stellar interferometry: particularly, he worked on the potential of using photonics crystal fibers in this field and on the instrumental part of the `OHANA project. Characterization of the chromatic dispersion was one of the main aspects of his studies.
From 2005 to 2011, he was a research associate with the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada in Boucherville (Québec, Canada). His main field of research was optical coherence tomography (OCT) and more specially Fourier domain OCT, the 2nd generation OCT system. He has been involved mainly in instrumentation and signal processing challenges.
From 2011 to June 2019, he was with Horiba Scientific (Jobin-Yvon) in Villeneuve d’Ascq (France). He first worked as an R&D; project leader (2011-2015) then as the global product line manager for the Raman spectrometer division (2015-2019). During this time at Horiba, he also received an EMBA from the EDHEC business school (France) in 2018.
Since September 2019, he is a business development manager with ALPhANOV, a Research and Technology Organization dedicated to Photonics in Limoges (France).