Charles Roques-carmes
ACS Photonics, Early Career Editorial Board Member (Inaugural) at American Chemical Society
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolCharles Roques-Carmes is a physicist-engineer specializing in nanophotonics, quantum optics, and advanced imaging, with a PhD in EECS from MIT and a decade of research experience spanning the US and Europe. He combines theory, experiment, and device engineering to control light-matter interactions for applications from integrated photonics to high-energy and X-ray sensing. An inaugural ACS Photonics Early Career Editorial Board member and Stanford Science Fellow, he has led cross-institutional collaborations and held visiting roles at MIT and ITMO, highlighting both depth and international research mobility. His work has earned high-profile recognition including Forbes 30 Under 30 and the Photonics Innovation Award in Honor of Federico Capasso, reflecting impact beyond academia. Notably, his background includes hands-on metasurface and bound-state-in-the-continuum experiments and an unusual early leadership stint in military policing, underscoring a mix of technical rigor and operational leadership. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he bridges cutting-edge photonics research with device-level innovation and scientific communication.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDiplôme d'ingénieur polytechnicien, Majoring in Physics., Diplôme d'ingénieur polytechnicien, Majoring in Physics. at École PolytechniqueMPSI-MP*, Mathématiques, Physique, MPSI-MP*, Mathématiques, Physique at Lycée Louis-le-GrandEOGN - École des officiers de la gendarmerie nationale
English, Russian, German, French
Github Skills (5)
movie5
oms4
django4
pytorch3
management3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
charlesrc/nanoscint
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Code and data for paper "A framework for scintillation in nanophotonics"
Contributions:1 release, 36 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
pytorchnanophotonics
charlesrc/pbit-opo
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
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