Thierry Bosch

Thierry Bosch was born in 1965. In 1993, he joined the Department of Automatic Control and Production Systems at the Engineering School of Mines of Nantes, as an Assistant Professor. He was a head of group on optoelectronics, instrumentation and sensors from 1995 to 2000.

He is currently a Professor with the Institut National Polytechnique Toulouse (Toulouse INP) and a member of the Optical Sensors and Smart Integrated Systems Research Group at LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse).

His research interests are related to laser industrial instrumentation development including range finding techniques, vibration and velocity measurements. He has cooperated in several programs of R&D with European companies active in the areas of sensor design, metrology, transportation or avionics.

He has co-authored more than 60 papers in archival journals and he has been invited to author the chapter dedicated to the optical feedback interferometry published in the Encyclopedia of Sensors. He has co-edited the Milestone Volume entitled "Selected Papers on Laser Distance Measurements" published by SPIE in 1995. He has been Guest co-Editor for Journal of Optics, Optical Engineering and Sensors on Distance and Displacement Measurements by Laser Techniques and acted as Chairman of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technical Committee "Laser & Optical Systems“.

He is nowadays Senior Member IEEE, Vice-President of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement French Chapter and Vice-President Corporate Relations of Toulouse INP.