Hassane Oulachgar has 20 years of R&D and engineering experience in industry, academia and research centre. He received Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. He is currently a senior research scientist at the National Institute of Optics in Quebec, where he has been working on development and microfabrication of infrared and terahertz microbolometer imagers, MEMS and printed electronic. Prior to joining the National Institute of Optics, he worked as a research assistant at the nanofabrication and nanocharacterization research center (CRN2) in Sherbrooke, Canada. Immediately after obtaining his master's degree in microelectronic, he joined Smartech Display (Smart Good Enterprises) in Hong Kong, as engineer, where he worked on development, engineering and manufacturing of liquid crystal display panels and related integrated systems. His areas of expertise include: microsystems design, cleanroom microfabrication processes, thin films deposition technology, semiconductor and photonic devices, MEMS, metamaterials, and electro-optical characterization of devices and materials. He has authored and coauthored over 40 scientific publications and several patents. He is a member of the professional engineers association of Quebec (OIQ) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).