Simon Deleonibus, retired from CEA-LETI (2016) as Chief Scientist of Research on Micro Nanoelectronics Devices Technologies and Architectures. Before joining CEA-LETI in 1986, he was with Thomson Semiconductors (1981-1986), where he developed and transferred to production advanced microelectronics devices and products. He gained his PhD in Applied Physics from Paris University (1982). He is Visiting Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan) since 2014 , National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan) since 2015 and at Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, PRC) since 2016.

He is distinguished CEA Research Director (2002), IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2004), Fellow of the IEEE (2006), Emeritus Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (2015).

He was awarded the titles of Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (2004) and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2011), the 2005 Grand Prix de l’Académie des Technologies, the 2022 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award. He was member of the ITRS since 1998, the European Research Council Panel since 2007, the Nanosciences Foundation Board of Trustees since 2007.

He was Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. On Elect. Dev. (2008-2014) and Member of the IEEE Electron Devices Society Board of Governors (01/2009-12/2014) and reelected (2016-2018); Chair of IEEE EDS Region 8 SRC (2015-2016); Secretary of IEEE Electron Devices Society (2016-2017). He is invited editor by Pan Stanford and Jenny Stanford Publishing since 2008.